On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 01:24:32PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > NB, a few years ago I made a lot of measurements in this area > using dtrace to figure out what was going on during boot.
Yes! That's what I had in mind. > Though more things are now becoming SMF'ed, the only > serialized area of concern for the boot scripts was the legacy > services. If someone wants to start this sort of analysis up > again, I'll be happy to share what data I have. Those should first be converted to SMF methods. That's where the payoff is going to be.