Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release)

Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-15T05:50:51Z

Ah Jim.

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:38, Jim Crilly wrote:
> I agree boot up is too slow and that some things should be started in the
> background, but not things that are required for the main purpose of the box to
> work properly, what should be started sync and what should be async is a hard
> decision IMO. Right now I use swsusp2 to work around this, it takes less time
> to resume my session + 500M of file cache than it does to boot manually and

You warmed my heart until...

> start all of my apps back up, but obviously that's not a real solution.

Why not? :> I guess you mean to the problem of slow booting in the first
place - I would agree with you there, but is there are reason why we
should have booting being the norm instead of normally suspending and
resuming, and only rebooting for new kernels/hardware/etc.

Regards,

Nigel

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