Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261633AbVBOFuv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:50:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261634AbVBOFuv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:50:51 -0500 Received: from 206.175.9.210.velocitynet.com.au ([210.9.175.206]:56260 "EHLO cunningham.myip.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261633AbVBOFua (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:50:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@cyclades.com To: Jim Crilly Cc: Lee Revell , Tim Bird , Roland Dreier , Prakash Punnoor , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Greg KH , Patrick McFarland , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <42116EAF.4070503@why.dont.jablowme.net> References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <524qge20e2.fsf@topspin.com> <1108424720.32293.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <42113F6B.1080602@am.sony.com> <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> <42116EAF.4070503@why.dont.jablowme.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1108446753.3666.28.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:52:33 +1100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1232 Lines: 34 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 -- Nigel Cunningham Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia http://www.cyclades.com Ph: +61 (2) 6292 8028 Mob: +61 (417) 100 574 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/