On 11/14/05, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Olivier Sessink] > >> I did not measure the boot speed, so I do not know if this speeded up > >> the boot or not. I hope to get to that soonish. > > > > there more programs you start with the same order number, the more > > speedup you can expect from the parallel start. > > Perhaps. That depend on the bottleneck. If there are CPU or IO > bottlenecks, parallel booting will not speed up the process much. :)
Isn't an IO bottleneck 'solved' by using readahead? And even without readahead, generating IO requests earlier means the HDD may be able to serve them in a more efficient order.
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