FC7 plan comments

[Tomas Mraz]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:49 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:58:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>  > 10. Boot and shutdown speedup
>  > 
>  > Jens Axboe did some kernel work for this, fcache:
>  > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/15/46
>  > 
>  > A lot of the boot slowness here comes from (a) udev [10+ seconds in
>  > startup], or (b) non-parallel initscripts.
> 
> The biggest wins will come from
> a) do less stuff.
>    Why are we starting so many things up during boot?
>    Do I need to be running a smartcard daemon on a system with no smartcard reader?
For example the egate cards are USB devices so the pcscd could
theoretically be started by udev when the card is plugged in. But the
library currently doesn't work right when the daemon is (re)started when
it was already initialized. And even if this was fixed the reaction time
for an app to actually discover that a smartcard was plugged in is
already pretty long. So making it even longer due to having to start the
pcscd is not too good idea.

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Tomas Mraz
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