Is it possible to make Fedora load faster?

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 22:52 +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> <snip>
> /*telinit 4*/
> I continue to ponder if we ought to have init level 4 in Fedora, meaning 
> "running on battery". Although I start and stop a bunch of services 
> going between 4 and 5, in reality most of them have no connection to the 
> battery status. For instance, I run ntpd and cups at level 5 but not 4, 
> because when I'm on battery, I'm away from home and naturally I do not 
> want either of them. This is, of course, bogus. However, there's one 
> service which may make the whole idea worthwhile: *crond*.
> 
> This sucker runs a whole bunch of things which definitely depend on AC 
> power and not on network status: makewhatis, prelink, logrotate, and so 
> on. Switching it on and off makes perfect sense. If only I were able to 
> figure how to make a hysteresis. If I plug and unplug power quickly, 
> apmd fires, init flips on and off, gazillion freaking scripts run. Or, 
> more realistically, I unplug and replug when migrating between outlets. 
> So, there must be some sort of a delay.
> </snip>
> 

I'm not sure that tricks like runlevel 4 is the way to go. For the FC5
timeframe we'll probably integrate something like this project

 http://gnome-power.sourceforge.net/

which is under development. But there's some work left to get it right
for the system-wide case.

David