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- Dependency based boot sequencing is the default in Debian. The
- insserv program is used by sysv-rc to order init.d scripts based on
- their declared dependencies.
-
- An experimental feature to run init.d scripts in parallel is also
- available. Use the CONCURRENCY setting in /etc/default/rcS to
- enable it.
-
- In short:
-
- # Enable parallel booting
- echo CONCURRENCY=makefile >> /etc/default/rcS
-
- # Ready to reboot
- shutdown -r now
-
- The next boot should then start services in parallel, as early as
- possible during the boot process based on the dependency information
- provided.
-
- The 'makefile' style concurrency depend on complete and correct
- dependencies in all init.d scripts. There is a simpler and less
- strict style 'startpar', which only require all scripts with the same
- sequence number to be able to run in parallel, and thus accept
- incomplete dependencies as long as the boot sequence number is OK.
-
- To monitor the boot sequence, the bootchart project is a good choice.
- Debian packages are available in etch and sid. The project itself is
- available from <URL:http://www.bootchart.org/>.
-
- Background info on alternative boot systems in Debian is available
- from
- <URL:http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30730/38/debconf2-initscripts-bkg.pdf>.
-
- Information on the LSB initscript comment convention is available from
- <URL:http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html>,
- <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts> and
- <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot>.
-
- Information on an alternative approach to parallelism during boot is
- available from
- <URL:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html>.
-
- A tool to detect cycles is available from Adam Jensen using the git
- repository <URL:http://linuxguy.org/git/initcycle.git>.
-