openrc-discuss

On Monday 09 November 2009 10:59:54 Ed W wrote:
> Hi, I have an Alix board that I'm using with Openrc.  Boot times are
> "decent", but right now the dependency calculation is chewing about 6
> seconds of boot time and by far the biggest boot time consumer.  The
> standard Alix board doesn't have a cmos battery so the dependency cache
> function of openrc doesn't operate (at least without some modifications
> to force it) because the date is always wrong
> 
> Roy, can you comment on whether it's worth me digging in to look at
> optimising the dependency calculation or if it's not likely to be a
> fruitful effort?  (ie "rc-update -u")

You can replace the hwclock init script with the swclock init script which 
sets the local time to the time when the system was shutdown. This avoids the 
dependency recalc due to the invalid clock and you then run ntp to correctly 
set the time.

Thanks

Roy