The MC's dependency management currently starts all services sequentially, according to their dependencies. In JBoss 4.3, we have 4 JGroups channels, which take 5 secs *each* to start. However, they are completely independent from each other, so they could be started concurrently. This would bring the time needed down from 20 secs to 5 secs. I imagine we could do this for all independent services, a.k.a subtrees in the dependency tree. This would speed up start of JBoss significantly ! Can we do this ? Cheers View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4128795#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...