FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs

Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by nextaccountic on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:36PM (#36008901)

Isn't fast startup the point of firecracker? It's supposed to scale down to zero when there are no users, and quickly ramp up when needed.

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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by taeric on Saturday May 20, 2023 @01:45AM (#36009653)

I mean... sorta? Yes, it is the point. But, the goal is to make it so that you can do this scale up/down at the VM level. We have been able to do this at a thread or even process level for a long long time, at this point.

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