On Jan 18, 2008 4:08 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info 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)