blog/data/2010-05-14-parallel-boot.txt

   1 Title: Parallellized boot is now the default in Debian/unstable
   2 Tags: english, debian, debian-edu
   3 Date: 2010-05-14 22:40
   4
   5 <p>Since this evening, parallel booting is the default in
   6 Debian/unstable for machines where dependency based boot sequencing is
   7 enabled.  Apparently the testing of concurrent booting has been wider
   8 than expected, if I am to believe the
   9 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00122.html">input
  10 on debian-devel@</a>, and I concluded to move forward with the feature
  11 now, to give us some time to detect any remaining problems before
  12 Squeeze is frozen.  If serious problems are detected, it is simple to
  13 change the default back to sequential boot.</p>
  14
  15 More information about
  16 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot">dependency
  17 based boot sequencing</a> is available from the Debian wiki.  It is
  18 currently possible to disable parallel booting by adding this line to
  19 /etc/default/rcS:</p>
  20
  21 <blockquote><pre>
  22 CONCURRENCY=none
  23 </pre></blockquote>
  24
  25 <p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to
  26 the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at
  27 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
  28 list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p>