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regarding startpar: Is it running anything in parallel?
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Package: startpar
Version: 0.61-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I get a feeling that startpar doesn't work as it was intended.
That is, it doesn't parallel the service starting at the boot.
I've conducted a couple of experiments: first, with makefile-style boot
and startpar (the default one) and second, without startpar, by creating
the /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering file.
Both of them yielded about the same time, 21±1 sec for me.
More than that, after reading its man page, I've tried to run startpar this way:
/lib/startpar/startpar sleep sleep sleep -a 10
And sure enough, it starts three sleep processes one by one and finishes after
30 seconds instead of 10.
I might be wrong, but doesn't this mean that startpar is basically
useless now?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages startpar depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
startpar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages startpar suggests:
ii insserv 1.18.0-2
ii sysv-rc 2.93-8
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
version: 0.64-3
On 10/01/2021 08:32, Mikhail Krylov wrote:
I'd guess that you may be hitting this regression. If so, the problem
should be fixed in the currently latest startpar, although that version
is apparently not in current testing.
Oh, thank you! It was indeed the case. I've installed startpar from
testing and inded, such a command now finished in 10 seconds, and bootup
is like 50% faster.
I guess this ticket can be closed.
Thanks for confirming; I've closed this bug.
Regards,
Matthew
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