On fre, 2004-07-23 at 21:02 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:16, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:21:05AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > [snip snip snip, here and throughout] > > > > -move starting some of slow things from rc.sysinit to a service, detect > > > > if they really needed early in rc.sysinit and then call/source the > > > > service script. > > > > > > Having dependency info in the init scripts and running stuff in parallel > > > when possible might help here. > > > > The last time this was tried, the total speedup was on the order of > > 10% or so. Perhaps it's changed, but it wasn't a extreme speedup. > > > > There is a lot of value to just getting gdm onscreen ASAP, even if the > disk keeps chugging in the background. Seth and Bryan have been lobbying > to do this. User-perceived startup time is basically until gdm comes up, > and then other stuff can finish while the user types their login. > > Havoc Yeah, what ever happened to Seth's python based init thingy, it sounded like such a cool idea when it was presented, but then there was no follow up. Seth seems to have a lot of good ideas concerning usability, and making UNIX not suck, we should all pay more attention to him. - David
