[indiana-discuss] reducing the number of services started at boot time

[Alberto Ruiz]

2007/7/6, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com>:
>
> Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>
> Is this something we should add to the list, i.e., investigate
> the services started at boot time to determine which aren't
> necessary and can be removed? I haven't noticed a problem
> with speed here aside from the first boot (which does take an
> inordinately long time--what on earth is it doing exactly?).


Actually, that's the speed problem that I was talking about. As far as I
know, it builds the manifests into a binary file that contents all the data
declared on it. I'm not an SMF expert so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Another problem is the boot archive one, as far as I know, is the equivalent
of the init ram disk on Linux, it takes tons of time to generate it and its
mandatory on reboot on some situations. Probably someone with a deeper
kwoledge than me can give more detail about this.

Anyway, keeping less services as possible would be not only useful for speed
purposes while generating the SMF manifest index, but also, to keeps things
simple and save ram for the live session that we need.

-ian
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-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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