ons, 20.10.2004 kl. 19.00 skrev Jeff Pitman: > On Wednesday 20 October 2004 22:53, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > problem with parallel startup is that it *ALSO* increases how much > > the disk has to seek, which slows things down. For me it's not clear > > if it's actually a real gain or just a placebo one. > > It's a gain for those really long startup daemons. Maybe xfs has to > recache its fonts, or maybe ntpdate is syncing with the time server. > > Then again, if Apache were written in a Bash script with all of its > functions in separate script files and configuration spread out in > different files and sourced in, parallelism would be an issue wouldn't > it? > > I actually retooled this: http://www.fefe.de/minit/ for Redhat once and > the results were just night and day. Of course, I didn't run kudzu or > anything complicated like that. Just brought up the stuff I needed. > You practically don't even need hibernate or sleep when you get it this > good. (Doesn't help with X/GNOME/KDE startup, though) ;-) No problem - i can wait 30 secounds, but 1.5 minutes is sometimes a bit long. Same basically goes to shutdown + i would guess somebody will think a grapical shutdown (similar to rhgb) would be a good thing...