patrick keshishian wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Alexander Hall <ha...@openbsd.org> wrote: >> Lars Nooden wrote: >>> I don't need it currently. >>> >>> I did get good benefits out of it with some embedded devices I used to >>> need frequently. It made start up noticeably faster on a pair of >>> net4801 boxes that ran (mostly) only dhcpd + pf + ftp via inetd >>> YMMV >> Seriously, how much time did you gain every reboot? 15 secs? And how >> often did you really reboot those boxes? Frequent power outages? > > I'm certainly not defending the use-case for this program/script, but, > 15 seconds per boot is quite a bit of time. Don't think "servers", > think laptops. If one powers on/off their laptop two times a day, > ignoring weekends, over the span of a year that is amounts to over two > hours.
Two hours. Wow. Now, how does that compare to the time setting it up and maintaining it? And the combined time of all people, including me, that are wasting time on this thread? That said, I will do so no more. Cheers, Alexander
