On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:58:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:01 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > - With this hack we shave twenty secs of the booting time (e.g. from > > > > GRUB until you can use your PC) but booting still feels much quicker > > > > because of the interaction with gdm in the middle (YMMV; e.g. placebo > > > > effect etc.) > > > > > > I'm guessing most of this is the lag in starting up RHGB and then > > > killing it to start a second X server. But ICBW. > > > > > > > Dunno; hopefully someone will do the boot time poster framework that Own > > proposed on fedora-devel. Until then, I'm not sure we have enough hard > > data to tell. > > Well, it's an obvious time savings point that starting the X server > once is faster than starting the X server, killing it, and starting > it again. It's just a matter of how much... :) then we need an x.org x11 able to start from a read-only filesystem :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
