Re: Speeding up Debian Boot
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:22:02 +0100
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take
> > longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB of RAM, Vista takes
> > almost 5 minutes to boot. Debian's at GDM beeping at me to log in in
> > about 45 seconds.
>
> Vista defaults to some sort of suspend to ram, I believe. That of course
> is much faster. But then I have to admit that suspend to ram and
> rebooting under Debian are about as fast. And I am starting mail- web-
> and database services.
> Which of course doesn't mean that a multi-threaded boot-sequence
> wouldn't be welcome. There's noting wrong with loading web and database
> whilst also showing a login prompt.
>
At least with current unstable it seems that gdm has been moved up the boot
chain to accommodate for this. It's now at S30gdm, I believe that it used to be
S90gdm or something similar.
> Sjoerd
>
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