On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > Yes there was a lot of talk about getting down boot time - but what did > > come of it? It isn't listed as major goals for fc4 anymore - so will fc4 > > boot faster than fc3 did, or did this effort run out in the sand? > > At least in Red Hat (not sure what Fedora community people have been doing on > this front) some of the guys have been working on killing rhgb. The idea here > is to start gdm as early as possible and let other services continue to start > while gdm is running and/or the user is logging in. That also involves > readahead optimization to make sure stuff that needs to get loaded gets loaded > as early as possible. > > If these things make it to FC4, they will not be default but will be easily > enabled with a kernel boot parameter. > > Other interesting ideas are disabling unecessary system services that desktop > users certainly do not need, as a group, like gpm. Furthermore, killing dumb > cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' would help make > the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days and > only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them > really really really low so they don't screw over the user). > > Dan > How about a nice that works for disk, rather than cpu?