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You should not reboot that often anyway.

• mjolk 10y ago
  Users should be free to reboot as often as they want. Parallelized init sequences have benefits, but I suspect this exaggerated '80 second' boot time, and the related '20 second' ideal, stems from either a misconfiguration, complete hogwash, or very particular worst-case setup (assuming an 8 core laptop has an SSD, and assuming a very conservative 200MB/s random-read speed, 80 seconds is enough time to populate 16GB of RAM from disk).
  • sklogic 10y ago
    > Users should be free to reboot as often as they want. Of course. But an init system should not be optimised for often reboots, since it's a marginal and unlikely scenario.
    • mjolk 10y ago
      I just realized that I used a truism in a way that could be read as scolding -- not my intention and I apologize for my communication if I offended. Starting up is a subset of rebooting, which is fine to spend time optimizing for, even though the Linux architecture lends itself towards long uptimes (well, until the complexity of systemd gets into the mix ;)).