boot faster

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Dec 19 16:01:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:51:20PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

 > >audit is currently listed within the core packages in comps.xml. Removing
 > >it from there should also be possible. Or disabling the startup by default.
 > >
 > >I still think audit belongs into core.
 > >
 > Maybe but it still needs to be disabled by default if its going to 
 > continue having a significant impact on boot up time and general 
 > performance. I dont think audit is something Fedora users are interested 
 > in general. If we need to iron out wrinkles we can enable it only during 
 > the test/development releases.
 
audit has the potential to be useful though. It could be used to
dynamically generate readahead.files  Addition of extra services
would need nothing to be changed, they'd get picked up on next boot,
and added to the filelist, for speeding up subsequent boots.

		Dave




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