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Suggestions for Init System Features?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 23 2014, @01:39AM   
from the first-do-no-harm dept.

Subsentient writes:

I am the maintainer of the Epoch Init System, a single threaded Linux init system with non-intrusiveness in mind, and I'm preparing to release 2.0. It's mostly a code cleanup release, but while I'm at it, I thought I'd ask the Soylent community what features they'd like to see. I'm open to all good ideas, but I'm wary of feature creep, so as a result, I won't consider the following:

* multithreaded/parallel services, because that goes against design goals of simplicity and harms customizability
* mounting support or networking support; it's an init system, use busybox if you need a mount command.

So what do soylentils want to see in the next release of the Epoch Init System?

• Re:what's so complicated about parallelism? (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 24 2014, @01:48AM

  by Arik (4543) on Monday November 24 2014, @01:48AM (#119278) Journal

  I made do with 1gb RAM. IIRC it should still let you suspend to swap space less than your physical ram as long as your current free ram is greater than the difference between the two, but I never tried it and could be wrong.
  
  Other than that all I can say is you are pushing hard to do more than the hardware is really equipped to do. That's not always a bad thing, but I dont think the OS should be radically redesigned just for that use case. If you want it to work well, I'd heartily recommend the 2/2 partition though, because suspend to disk is really THE killer OS feature on that machine for me. It's very quick to suspend and to restart, and the battery loves it.

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