“runit, a Unix init scheme with service supervision written by
Gerrit Pape, is a complete replacement for SysVinit. Its key
benefits include improved boot speed and ease of use. In the time
that it takes you to read this article, you could move from init to
runit.“In a recent article covering the use of cinit to implement a
parallel boot process, I managed to turn a booting time of 2
minutes 54 seconds into 2 minutes 3 seconds–a massive saving of 51
seconds. By converting the same Linux machine to runit, I was able
to reduce booting time to 55 seconds. And as for ease of use, it
took me two days of work to convert to using cinit, and only one
hour to do the same with runit…”