Preloading [WAS: Re: SuSE Project SUPER]

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

2008/1/14, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com>:
>
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:05:32PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> >> Uhm, yeah you're right.  But it will help those who actually use the
> >> distribution rather than toss it aside based off bad information they
> got
> >> from someone else.  There is certainly time and place to consider user
> >> first impressions, but I hardly think its a good idea to filter an idea
> >> like the above by ONLY that consideration.
> >
> > I dunno. It seems like optimizing for startup time seems a misguided if
> > that's your goal. Starting stuff is a very low percentage of actual use,
> > especially with suspend/hibernate.
>
> I'm aware its fairly low usage time, and not suggesting that any startup
> optimization options be made at the cost of others (quite the
> opposite...).
> What I was suggesting was that cached or otherwise optimized startup times
> are
> nicer than slow ones, and it would not be wasted effort if some
> improvements
> were made there.  I like OSX's performance in that way alot.
>
> So I wouldn't call it misguided, just lower priority.  It sounds like you
> would
> agree with me that no start time optimizations should have detrimental
> impact on
> performance the rest of the time though.  I would not want startup
> performance
> caching to be going on while I'm trying to play a game for instance.
>
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Disabling unused services is the first step :> .
But hey, there's no second step :> .

We should just make something with Fedora to make it load and work faster...

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