Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kworr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 10:14:03 UTC 2012


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> Personally I think that the kernel boot time is the killer here and
>> the work should go there and second on the rc system.
> exactly what i wrote. rc.d subsystem is quick, and anyway in special
> cases just delete in and write all needed startup in /etc/rc
>
> i assume it is embedded system - in which boot time is very important.
>
>> PS: nothing wrong in having an OS that boots faster, performs better
>> is more stable than others :). This is something I would like
>> to see as an improvement. Wouldn't you ?
> of course i do!
>
> Do you have USB in that system?

The problem is deeper, I'm using minimalized kernel without USB and 
greatest hang is 3 or so seconds after "Timecounters tick every 1.000 
msec" just before ada0 appears.

And I have already tried modularized ada - results are the same.

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