Parallel Startup for KDE.

[Stefan Heimers]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>  Perhaps on multi-CPU systems, but in general no - the same amount of work 
> needs to be done, and it doesn't matter much in how many threads. But there's 
> also a difference between KDE startup and system startup. During system 
> startup, many of the started services wait for hardware to initialize, 
> connect to remote systems, and similar things that make them wait while doing 
> nothing. Starting more services in parallel helps there. But with KDE the CPU 
> should be fully used all the time.

What about loading files? KDE loads a huge number of separate config
files, each needing disk seek time or slow NFS-links. It's quite possible
that even a single CPU is idle from time to time.

Stefan