Every Gentooer knows RC- or rather /sbin/rc.It’s the tool that handles the initial boot and then starts and stops services depending on the runlevel desired. It’s also primarily written in bash. This is no bad thing, as it’s a powerful shell, compared with say the standard sh shell from FreeBSD. But this is not without a price, and that price my friends is speed.baselayout-1.13 currently boots around 10 seconds faster than 1.
Long time no blog! However, I have been a busy beaver :)baselayout-1.13 has undergone some serious stress testing by dsd and we’ve made some good improvements to reliability when shutting down, solving a few race issues and sorting out dependencies hopefully for once and all 8)Parallel startup has also had some speedups, and my hdd light is now hardly out once we enter rc properly (if anyone knows how to speed up udev, let me know)So how do we now compare to other init systems such as init-ng, eINIT and Upstart?
So about a year or so ago, I switched from GNOME to KDE because various GNOME applications where crashing regulary- mostly the mail client evolution. And life was good, KDE has drastically improved, looked nice and more importantly worked without many issues.However, kmail has been crashing all too frequently of late, sometimes every time I click an email to read. There’s plenty of bugs about kmail crashing in their bugzilla, but I could not find another suitable email client for KDE/QT.
OK, if you’re a zealot and want ALL your state data saved to /var, you can pretty much forget it :evil:Here’s the reasons why it’s a bad idea for a package like baselayout- /var is not guaranteed to be always available. In fact, we jump through a lot of hoops to work without /usr available too, but we’re talking about saving state.Another reason why saving to /var is bad is because I’ve been toying with the idea of making “rc single” really single user.
So Abbey and I went to see Saw 3 over the weekend and it was a good movie. Not as good as Saw 1, possibly better than Saw 2. It’s the endings that I love- always a good twist. Still that’s the point of the movie, the twist at the end. The beauty of Saw 1 was that you didn’t expect it which is why no sequel could be better ….
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