Next batch of fixes

Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/s6-instance-delete.html b/doc/s6-instance-delete.html
index 28eca9c..49530b2 100644
--- a/doc/s6-instance-delete.html
+++ b/doc/s6-instance-delete.html
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ on a supervision tree that is specific to the instanced service, and
 s6-instance-delete removes a service directory from that tree. </li>
  <li> If the template for the service is logged, then s6-instance-delete will
 delete both the instance and its logger. </li>
+ <li> s6-instance-delete and <a href="s6-instance-create.html">s6-instance-create</a>
+are relatively expensive operations, because they have to recursively copy or
+delete directories and use the <a href="libs6/ftrigr.html">synchronization mechanism</a>
+with the instance supervisor, compared to
+<a href="s6-instance-control.html">s6-instance-control</a> which only has to send
+commands to already existing supervisors. If you are going to turn instances on and
+off on a regular basis, it is more efficient to keep the instance existing and control
+it with <a href="s6-instance-control.html">s6-instance-control</a> than it is to
+repeatedly create and delete it. </li>
 </ul>
 
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