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diff --git a/doc/s6-instance-create.html b/doc/s6-instance-create.html index c81dfe4..1aa0d4c 100644 --- a/doc/s6-instance-create.html +++ b/doc/s6-instance-create.html @@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ s6-instance-create adds a service directory to that tree and ensures it gets supervised. </li> <li> If the template for the service is logged, then s6-instance-create will wait until supervisors have been spawned for both the instance and its logger. </li> + <li> s6-instance-create and <a href="s6-instance-delete.html">s6-instance-delete</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> </body> |