David Zeuthen (davidz(a)redhat.com) said:
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 00:01 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> David Zeuthen (davidz(a)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... :)
Bill