FreeBSD Boot Times

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Richard Yao wrote:
>
>> Gentoo FreeBSD shares OpenRC with Gentoo Linux. OpenRC is a BSD 2-clause
>> licensed System V init system replacement that supports parallel boot.
>> Its boot performance is competitive with systemd and Ubuntu's upstart.
>> 
>> If FreeBSD's init system is serializing the boot process, it might be
>> worthwhile to consider importing OpenRC.
>
> There have been at least two attempts to parallelize the rc scripts. The more 
> recent one was posted on the forums.  AFAIR, one advantage it had was no or 
> few changes to the rc scripts, and something like 40% improvement in startup 
> time.  I'll post a link if I can find it.
>
> Startup time is a big deal for notebooks.

Thanks to pointers from forum members and moderators, links to various 
attempts to improve startup time:

An older attempt in -current:
http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/rc-improvements-wanted-td3911390.html

The forums post:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25822

And a newer effort from the PC-BSD folks which sounds very promising:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.pcbsd.testing/6225