On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Hans de Goede wrote: > Thanks for all the reactions, below I'll react to the interesting ones: > > -no I haven't timed this yett, but making gdm start before things like > network, sendmail, anacron, cups, etc should really speed things up (i > think). If there is genuine interest in this, which there seems to be > I'll write some initial test patches. > -about the preload work / multithreaded patches. Those are real > optmizations, which require lott of work and add a lott of complexity, > thats not what this is about. Havoc understands what I want todo, this > is not about actually speeding up the boot process, this is about giving > the user soemthing to laak at /type in ASAP, and then start things like > networking, cups etc after this. You'll have to have network and various other "useless" things running before user can login in case of networked authentication methods, /home over NFS etc. This gets us back to the "initscripts with dependencies" which didn't bring that much improvement, though I certainly wouldn't mind 10% faster boot and then start gdm as soon as possible, leaving things that *really* don't matter like anacron to start up later. - Panu -
