On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:29 +0200, shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: > could it manage services like pcmcia, isdn, networking, vncserver, gpm, > httpd, mysql, ntop, webmin, usermin, ... ? The idea is really that services need to ask some entity, as well getting notifications, whether they should run at all, not the other way around. See this message for details https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-April/msg00199.html Once we have that piece of infrastructure we can start cleaning up these IO/CPU hogs. But I'm not really sure your example is interesting; typical users don't run the mysql, httpd system-wide services on a desktop box (some might run httpd in the desktop session for e.g. gnome-user-share). I think this is primarily interesting for updatedb/makewhatis etc. Cheers, David