On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:27:29 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:16:29AM +0200, Jan F. Chadima wrote: > > It amazes me how much energy people spend on it to save 3 seconds a > > day. Of course, if the computer being turned daily. In the case of a > > server time saving is even more amazing. > > Virtualization changes things. > > The way _I_ use Fedora involves booting it dozens of times a day (of > course, I'm talking about a VM or a very small Fedora appliance). > > In any case, why *not* make things faster? The way things are now, I > have computers that boot a hundred of times more *slowly* than the > first computer I owned. Yes they do hundreds of times more things, > but they also have a processor that is orders of magnitude faster. > > Rich. > Many computers are booted very rarely, once a day or so, and then sit idle for very long periods of time. This is very wasteful. The reason people do this is because booting takes a long time compared to starting the set of applications they use. If you could boot and start applications in say, 1/2 second, usage patterns would be completely different. -- Bernd Stramm bernd.stramm@xxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
