Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

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On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 12:59 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > Yes there was a lot of talk about getting down boot time - but what did
> > come of it? It isn't listed as major goals for fc4 anymore - so will fc4
> > boot faster than fc3 did, or did this effort run out in the sand?
> 
> At least in Red Hat (not sure what Fedora community people have been doing on 
> this front) some of the guys have been working on killing rhgb.  The idea here 
> is to start gdm as early as possible and let other services continue to start 
> while gdm is running and/or the user is logging in.  That also involves 
> readahead optimization to make sure stuff that needs to get loaded gets loaded 
> as early as possible.
> 
> If these things make it to FC4, they will not be default but will be easily 
> enabled with a kernel boot parameter.
> 
> Other interesting ideas are disabling unecessary system services that desktop 
> users certainly do not need, as a group, like gpm.  Furthermore, killing dumb 
> cron jobs that run every day like 'updatedb' and 'makewhatis' would help make 
> the desktop experience a hell of a lot better (geez, run them every 3 days and 
> only when the machine has been idle for 5 minutes or something, and re-nice them 
> really really really low so they don't screw over the user).
> 
> Dan
> 

How about a nice that works for disk, rather than cpu?