Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:52:33 +1100 |
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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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