On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > Spelunking in /etc/rc.conf, I found the rc_parallel setting, > accompanied with a quite significant WARNING.
Maybe not what you're looking for, but if you are really interested in truly parallelizing the startup of services you could try systemd. I use it in all of my boxes, and the boot time saved is in some cases in the order of one minute. (And to everybody else: I'm not interested in a flame war; I'm just telling my [admittedly empirical] experience). -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México