Faster login

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:58:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:01 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> > > >  - With this hack we shave twenty secs of the booting time (e.g. from
> > > >    GRUB until you can use your PC) but booting still feels much quicker
> > > >    because of the interaction with gdm in the middle (YMMV; e.g. placebo
> > > >    effect etc.)
> > > 
> > > I'm guessing most of this is the lag in starting up RHGB and then
> > > killing it to start a second X server. But ICBW.
> > > 
> > 
> > Dunno; hopefully someone will do the boot time poster framework that Own
> > proposed on fedora-devel. Until then, I'm not sure we have enough hard
> > data to tell.
> 
> Well, it's an obvious time savings point that starting the X server
> once is faster than starting the X server, killing it, and starting
> it again. It's just a matter of how much... :)

  then we need an x.org x11 able to start from a read-only filesystem :-)

Daniel

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