please deactivate services by default!

[Les Mikesell]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:17:50 -0400
> "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> 
>>> Seems like doing an IO heavy task like this will no longer be much
>>> of an issue with a parallel init type startup.
>> Parallel init is still limited by IO-heavy tasks. All I've seen about
>> "parallel service startup" is that is makes almost no difference.
> 
> 
> "parallel init" is surprisingly not the answer to booting fast.
> 
> (unlike parallel, asynchronous components do help)

But there's no reason to delay logins until cron or the sendmail daemon 
have started.  And the sendmail daemon doesn't really ever have to run 
unless there are undelivered messages in the queue.  I'd guess the only 
reason it was ever done that way was the convention of giving X it's own 
runlevel which doesn't make all that much sense anyway.

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   Les Mikesell
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