On Jan 18, 2008 4:08 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18.01.2008 15:41, drago01 wrote: > > >> GDM is loaded earlier - starting feels much shorter. > > we had this in earilier releases, yes but it was not on by default passing "early-login" to on the kernel cmd was needed to enable it. > Are you sure? IIRC gdm-early-login never left the experimental stage. > > > but this does not fix anything it just hiddes the real issues. > > I tend to disagree a small bit. It could be a net win if we'd use the > time while the user logs in (¹) for other things in the background > (loading things that we know will be used into the cache, start > non-crucial daemons, ....). It works well in Opensuse and the boot feels > faster (even if it's sometimes not that much faster if you measure it > with a stopwatch). > > CU > knurd > > (¹) currently afaics the computer mainly is waiting for the user to type > username and password (which can take 5 seconds or more -- depending on > how fast you type and if you are actually around when GDM shows up), > thus there are a lot of spare cycles that could be used for other things sure, but we somehow have to decide when to start gdm (ie to not break nfs homedirs etc) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
