[Nottingham] Debian devotion [was: OE Reply Fixer]

[Robert Davies]

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 10:36, you wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:23:59AM +0000, David Bean wrote:
> > > Is the i386 vs optimisations really that big a step?  Are there any
> > > decent benchmarks on it in normal use for instance?
> >
> > I know my P 90 - compiled from source
> > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) gets to a console faster than my PII
> > 300 running debian woody. Both running same services.
>
> Sorry but that's not a valid benchmark.

Right, one reason Gentoo and Slackware use BSD style init, is it's much 
faster.  When I put Solaris2 and later Linux on Sun4c architecture machines, 
eg) SPARC 2, 5 etc  I was shocked how long boot took, compared to the old BSD 
style of SunOS4.

There's numerous times, where I've considered doing some fast rc system, 
using perl scripts to reduce forking, and some sort of configuration tables, 
to start most daemons (yep you'ld need a pre- and post- start program hook, 
for special cases), and tjem running upto  (NCPUs * 2 + 2) daemon inits in 
parallel.  I can't see a distro taking something like that up, that's not 
developed in house, the ties to their Installer and Administration GUIs are 
too tight.

Rob