Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261174AbVBQShc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:37:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262223AbVBQShc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:37:32 -0500 Received: from uni03du.unity.ncsu.edu ([152.1.13.103]:21376 "EHLO uni03du.unity.ncsu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261174AbVBQShT (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:37:19 -0500 From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:37:09 -0500 To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] speeding boot process (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release) Message-ID: <20050217183709.GA11929@ncsu.edu> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1108430245.32293.16.camel@krustophenia.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1126 Lines: 22 On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:17:25PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > from user space to presenting a login prompt that's way too long. My > distro (Debian) runs all the init scripts one at a time, and GDM is the > last thing that gets run. There is just no reason for this. We should > start X and initialize the display and get the login prompt up there > ASAP, and let the system acquire the DHCP lease and start sendmail and > apache and get the date from the NTP server *in the background while I > am logging in*. It's not rocket science. This is debatable. Windows does something like this. It really annoys me that I will get a windows desktop very quickly after logging in but that I can't do anything with it until some mystrey initialization takes place. I would hate to be able to log into my linux machine but not be able to check email for the first 15 seconds. Jim - 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/