Bootup speed for F8

[Stewart Adam]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:06 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> Well, maybe, but I think it's a common problem:
>     http://lattica.com/pub/bootchart-20071130-f8.png
> 
> In my case, that initial time is close to 11s! And mind
> you, it's no bootchard weirdness, I've always noticed it.
> 
> Wall time for the above boot sequence is:
>   * GRUB -> X:       25s
>   * X -> login:      40s
>   * login -> usable: 20s
> 
> That's almost 1.5 minutes, with all the user interaction
> removed.
IIRC development stopped on gdm-early-login because it was trouble for
users with system files that were NFS-mounted (/var and /usr I think),
but that was one really easy way to make things seem faster without
actually the decreasing boot time.

Stewart