david merriman wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just reading this article ( http://tinyurl.com/2ostmf ) about > parallelizing (is that a word ?) applications to make Linux boot > faster, and thought I might give it a go. Does anyone here do > something like this on their own pc's ? If so, what do you use/do, and > what experiences, good or bad, have you had ? I'd be interested to know. > > L8R, > David Upstart is in use on Ubuntu.
In Edgy, it does nothing more than upstart the usual init.d script, so nothing new there. For Feisty, however, the main developer reports on 2006-11-03 http://www.netsplit.com/blog/articles/2006/11 <quote> Boot Sequence A long-running project within Ubuntu has been to get the boot and shutdown sequences as fast and efficient as possible. At the time we started, it was common for a Linux distribution to boot in a mere two or three minutes. If you thought edgy booted fast, wait until you see feisty. Feisty is the release where we take full advantage of Upstart <http://upstart.ubuntu.com/>, not only bringing the system up as fast as possible but also more robustly than we can do today. And if that weren’t enough, it should look slicker too; without some of the nasty flickering and mode changes that happen today. </quote> I have no idea how well it works; I'm still on Edgy. But that is an relatively easy way to see whether it works for you. Stephen ======================================================================= This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. =======================================================================
