[aklug] Re: Run Boot-Time Scripts in Parallel in Ubuntu

Also yall,
The amount of cores involved is mostly pointless. You're running a
multi-tasking operating system :)

Love,
Shane the snarky

David Prentice wrote:
> concurrency=shell is one of the first things I do on any new *buntu
> install, real or virtual. Haven't seen a problem with it. I think that
> the common sense should be that if you're getting complicated with
> your init scripts, you might not want concurrency=shell. In my case,
> it is entirely desktop and laptop installs, and nothing terribly
> complicated.
>
> I can't give any hard numbers, but I really don't think it makes much
> difference one way or the other. As infrequently as linux installs
> need to reboot, a few seconds here and there seems piddly. Except on
> my Dell netbook. Changing concurrency=shell on that cut the boot time
> down to seconds. But thats a terrible example.
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Robert Crowe <crowe.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting-as always any advice or tips taken from the net should be taken
>> with a grain of salt (as well as a lot of common sense.) I never found that
>> article about stability issues while googling-but my search parameters were
>> Intrepid-Concurrency-Shell which is probably why I missed it. The article
>> was dated 2006-still I like erring on the side of caution. Stability has
>> been my monkey lately.
>> I've been running my Dell core duo laptop the last week with nary a hiccup.
>> But I haven't added any new packages-especially start up daemons to push the
>> init script. Nevertheless thanks for the heads up. B
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