[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] An startpar with runlevel-full parallel execution

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 09 May 2009 04:11:19 Jordi Pujol wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> To improve the performance of a Debian system, 
> I've programmed a new startpar to do a faster startup and stop,
> that runs all programs for a given runlevel, completely in parallel. 
> First all the K-ill services, and after the S-tart ones.
> Works with the dependency files of insserv and scans the runlevel directory 
> for the service names to run. 
> Each service will start when their list of dependencies is completed.
> The numeric levels ( [S-K][0-9][0-9] ) does not matter, what matters is only 
> the dependency relations.
> 
> Requires insserv configured properly.
> Can be installed following easy instructions.
> 
> That is explained and can be downloaded on my website:
> 
> http://livenet.selfip.com/?content=startpar
> 
> if that is fine, the next step could be include it in the sysvinit package,
>  
> Try it, is faster than the SUSE's startpar in 25%, and comparing with the 
> standard boot concurrency, may be 50% faster.

Please check sysvinit package SVN, I have done this already if I understand
correctly.

Thanks, Kel.
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