From aeb3ad3d8cac8f1f085725711d2d8739b722b61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 22:24:26 +0000
Subject:  Next batch of fixes

Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
---
 doc/s6-instance-create.html | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/s6-instance-create.html')

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>
 
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