IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Hans de Goede]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for all the reactions, below I'll react to the interesting ones:
>>
>>-no I haven't timed this yett, but making gdm start before things like 
>>network, sendmail, anacron, cups, etc should really speed things up (i 
>>think). If there is genuine interest in this, which there seems to be 
>>I'll write some initial test patches.
>>-about the preload work / multithreaded patches. Those are real 
>>optmizations, which require lott of work and add a lott of complexity, 
>>thats not what this is about. Havoc understands what I want todo, this 
>>is not about actually speeding up the boot process, this is about giving 
>>the user soemthing to laak at /type in ASAP, and then start things like 
>>networking, cups etc after this.
> 
> 
> You'll have to have network and various other "useless" things running 
> before user can login in case of networked authentication methods, /home 
> over NFS etc. This gets us back to the "initscripts with dependencies" 
> which didn't bring that much improvement, though I certainly wouldn't mind 
> 10% faster boot and then start gdm as soon as possible, leaving things 
> that *really* don't matter like anacron to start up later.
> 

If you would have taken the time to fully read my first mail, then you 
would have known that I've concidered this case.

99% if the non-corperate) desktop users don't use network 
authentication, or /home on NFS.

Regards,

Hans

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