Faster login

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Nov 16 19:43:05 UTC 2004


tir, 16.11.2004 kl. 13.59 skrev Stephan Matthiesen:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Montag, 15. November 2004 21:07 schrieb Mike Hearn:
> > Of course, starting services I don't need/want like cups doesn't help
> > either ...
> 
> Suggestion: Most people probably need cups, but not right from the start 
> (usually you first edit a document etc.)
> 
> What I do: I disabled all services that are not essential for login. Then I 
> have a batch script that starts the rest when the load goes down, i.e. after 
> login. So acpid, crond, cups, mysql, httpd, privoxy, wine ... get started 
> while I'm already working. (It's a laptop, so I need to boot/shutdown several 
> times a day; I need mysql and httpd for some of my databases).
> This way I saved something like 40 seconds startup time.
> 
> It would be nice if there was a recognized/official way to start non-essential 
> services after the login. It could be a simple modification of the existing 
> links in /etc/rc5.d/, like:
> S85httpd starts http immediately
> L85httpd starts it later as a batch job.
> There should also information which services depend on each other, and which 
> are needed for X. 
> 
> Cheers
> Stephan

Well - as long as it is predictable, all is fine. But you want to make
sure that HTTPD and acpid actually WILL start asap. (but not before.)
Think a machine with little RAM and no DMA. its load might not fall
rappidly enough for those services to start, and it would make a
debugging nightmare.




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