Moinak Ghosh <moin...@belenix.org> wrote:

>    I am taking guesses here but I suspect this boot performance may
>    be relative. AFAIK SMF does not restrict the extent of concurrency.
>    So if there are 100 non-interdependent services ready to be started
>    at the current graph state then it will start all 100 concurrently. This
>    might be good for multi-way big-iron boxes but can be at the
>    diminishing returns point for smaller workstations and laptops where
>    there is neither the disk/memory bandwidth and nor the core-count to
>    handle such a load. In this case a feature to have a graceful reduction
>    in concurrency level in SMF should help.

It may even be seek times are the main problem...


Jörg

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