Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Les Mikesell]

Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:44:16PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>>> Suggestions welcomed.
>>>> how about not running a full MTA on a laptop/client install... at all?
>>> that would never be changed. So to have a full blown MTA for local
>>> delivery is overkill for a vast majority of situations. I filed a bug
>> It is true, but more to the point, full blown MTA can do local delivery 
>> without being started as daemons. So no MTA should be started in the 
>> default case.
> 
> With default configuration, only exim can deliver directly. Postfix
> and sendmail need a daemon running or a cron job to actually deliver
> the mail.

But note that (a) the daemon startup can be delayed so as not to impact 
bootup time and (b) making sleep/hibernate reliable is what laptop users 
need instead of booting all the time anyway because it is much faster if 
you can simply close the lid and open it later with all your apps 
working as you left them.

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   Les Mikesell
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