Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to OpenRC 0.9.6?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Albert W. Hopkins
<marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 18:33 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote:
>> I was just a little surprised that a system package turned out to be
>> completely broken in a scenario that I thought was quite widespread,
>> especially among the devs (as rc_parallel results in _very_ tangible
>> time savings, especially on a desktop with lots of services and
>> frequent
>> boots).
>
> I have desktops and have not seen any noticable difference in startup
> times with rc_parallel.  The config file even says "slight speed"
> improvement, then goes on with a *huge* caveat as if to say "yeah, you
> might see a little difference, but it's probably not worth it for most
> people".
>
> Basically I take that to mean, it *may* speed things up slightly for
> some people.  If it works for you, great for you.  If it breaks, you get
> to pick up the pieces.

I enabled it for a while, ran into a problem once which left my system
unbootable, chrooted from a livecd and disabled it, and never thought
about enabling it again. I usually count my yearly reboots on one
hand, so a few seconds saved to me are not worth my potential minutes
or hours spent fixing it if it goes wrong, in my opinion. For a dev
box or laptop that is booted frequently, that's a different story.
Just not my story. :)