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STARTPAR(8)							   STARTPAR(8)

NAME
       startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel

SYNOPSIS
       startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout] [-T global_timeout] [-a arg]
       prg1 prg2 ...
       startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout]  [-T	global_timeout]	 -M  [
       boot|start|stop]

DESCRIPTION
       startpar	 is  used  to run multiple run-level scripts in parallel.  The
       degree of parallelism on one CPU can be set with	 the  -p  option,  the
       default	is  full parallelism. An argument to all of the scripts can be
       provided with the -a option.  Processes blocked	by  pending  I/O  will
       cause new process creation to be weighted by the iorate factor 800.  To
       change this factor the option -i can be used to specify another	value.
       The  amount  weight=(nblocked×iorate)/1000  will be subtracted from the
       total number of processes which could be started, where nblocked is the
       number of processes currently blocked by pending I/O.

       The  output  of	each  script  is  buffered and written when the script
       exits, so output lines of different scripts won't mix. You  can	modify
       this behaviour by setting a timeout.

       The  timeout  set  with the -t option is used as buffer timeout. If the
       output buffer of a script is not empty and the last output was  timeout
       seconds ago, startpar will flush the buffer.

       The  -T option timeout works more globally. If no output is printed for
       more than global_timeout seconds, startpar will flush the buffer of the
       script  with the oldest output. Afterwards it will only print output of
       this script until it is finished.

       The -M option switches startpar into a make(1)  like  behaviour.	  This
       option takes three different arguments: boot, start, and stop for read‐
       ing .depend.boot or .depend.start or .depend.stop respectively  in  the
       directory  /etc/init.d/.	 By scanning the boot and runlevel directories
       in /etc/init.d/ it then executes the appropriate scripts in parallel.

FILES
       /etc/init.d/.depend.boot
       /etc/init.d/.depend.start
       /etc/init.d/.depend.stop

SEE ALSO
       init(8) insserv(8).

COPYRIGHT
       2003,2004 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
       2007 SuSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR
       Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
       Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

				   Jun 2003			   STARTPAR(8)
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