On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 12:57, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 08:53, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 07:53, Eric Huff wrote: > > > > There's an interesting article at > > > > > > > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster > > > > > > That is an interesting article. > > > > The /. discussion also pointed to a more sophisticated setup in > > Gentoo... in both cases, this is more work than the average admin or > > poweruser can justify, but it would be nifty if the distros did it for > > you. The flipside is that it makes understanding and troubleshooting the > > process a little tougher. > > Tougher than the spaghetti code we have now? I've also played with the > Gentoo system.... it's ok. but not as earth shaking as the slash > dotters make it seem. This however has the advantage of fitting in with > existing software. No need to rewrite all of the programs inits. >
I'll buy Gentoo not being the best thing since sliced bread :-) It looked to me like they're just adding some lines to the startup script defining relationships though, which isn't bad. Akin to chkconfig in fact. But I don't think SysV init is that bad -- not compared to FreeBSD 4.1, for instance, which put my head into tailspin. The hardware detection / devfs stuff in Mandrake is black voodoo too. > James > > > > > > > > > So, if paralelling speeds things up, doesn't that mean that some > > > processes are waiting for hardware? Or do intel chips actually > > > parallel? > > > > > > Paralleling obviously works great for human interaction (one web page > > > loading while reading another). But if the processes are using up all > > > the cpu, paralleling shouldn't help unless there is a piece of > > > hardware/peripheral it's waiting for, right? > > > > > > > once the kernel's up, you've got a multi-tasking OS at hand. No matter > > how busy a given process is, there's resource for others; otherwise, > > your computer would lock up every time a process hangs. > > > > > eric > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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