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