patrick keshishian wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Alexander Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Lars Nooden wrote:
>>> I don't need it currently.
>>>
>>> I did get good benefits out of it with some embedded devices I used to
>>> need frequently. It made start up noticeably faster on a pair of
>>> net4801 boxes that ran (mostly) only dhcpd + pf + ftp via inetd
>>> YMMV
>> Seriously, how much time did you gain every reboot? 15 secs? And how
>> often did you really reboot those boxes? Frequent power outages?
>
> I'm certainly not defending the use-case for this program/script, but,
> 15 seconds per boot is quite a bit of time. Don't think "servers",
> think laptops.
I'm not sure laptops could or should be considered embedded devices.
Think modded 'switch' or 'router' instead. The idea is that if I plug
in an appliance, whether at the start of the day or when I moved in the
lab or to another lab or when I swap CF cards[1], by the time I can get
my hand over to the keyboard it should be ready to use.
Maybe for a netbook it might be useful, but I don't use it there. The
time I seem to lose on the netbooks and notebooks is caused by the bios
and bootloader. I chose not to use it on the production servers. The
only important thing with the servers was to come up automatically when
power was restored.
Regards,
/Lars
[1] e.g. swapping cards is almost infinitely faster than doing a
restoration from backup. the backup would have to be on a removable
device anyway. since I have 'extra' time to fiddle now, I've bought
more hardware and test different arrangments:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/Viking/viking-net5501.png
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lars/Viking/raid0.png
Eventually I will settle on what is best for my own use and leave it at
that until later.
