[ILUG] Speeding up the boot process / Parallelizing init scripts ???

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:28:13PM +0100, Glen Gray wrote:
> c) Init scripts seem to take a long time and here is where I am stuck.
> The only thing I could think 
>     of would be to some how paralleliz the scripts but a google search
> on such things only gave 
>     me stuff about beowulf pvm or The Hurd. Theoretically this could be
> done. But I'd like to see if 
>     it's been done safely before.

someone mentioned tossing the init scripts for a single script, i'd go
one better - toss the scripts.  write a c program to do all that and
have init run it.  should be easy to learn (by docs or init source or
trial and error) what rc script is run first and what args it gets.
then have the c program fork and exec what it needs to run.

one issue might be a need to set environment vars that the shell would
normally set.  again, figure this out by trial and error.

kevin

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