On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:58:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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... :)
then we need an x.org x11 able to start from a read-only filesystem :-)
Daniel
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