[Shachar Shemesh]
When you said and of course, I thought you were going to say allow
scripts that have no inter-dependency to start in parallel. Having a
concurrency level of at least 2 should speed the start up
considerably, especially when packages are taking long to start mostly
because they do a sleep in wait for some hardware to settle.
Yes, running things in parallel is also made easier. But I am not
sure if it will speed up the boot or not. Benchmarks have been
inconclusive. Switching to dash as /bin/sh have more impact on the
boot time than reordering and concurrency, according to the result
from the google summer of code project of Carlos Villegas.
But before we can be sure to run everything, all init.d scripts should
have correct LSB headers. As you can see from this list, there are
still a few packages to fix. An updated list of packages is available
from URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot.
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