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Re: Paralell startup

Subject: Re: Paralell startup
From: Matias Féliciano
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:31:00 +0200
Le mercredi 20 octobre 2004 Ã 10:53 -0400, Arjan van de Ven a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:10, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > I am hearing much good from the gentoo camp about paralell startup, and
> > how it brings down boot times to about 30 secounds. Is this possible to
> > do with fedora as well?
> 
> problem with parallel startup is that it *ALSO* increases how much the
> disk has to seek, which slows things down. For me it's not clear if it's
> actually a real gain or just a placebo one.

Placebo, perhaps. I appreciate the speed up of readahead.
I boot in 35 seconds (gdm login) ! Just disable rhgb and suppress
unneeded (for me) services. I also add other services (apache,
postgresql, named, squid).

Athon xp 1600. IDE drive.
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