Parallel Startup for KDE.

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tuesday 30 September 2003 13:36, Stefan Heimers wrote:
> 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.

It would be nice to have a high-resolution graph (e.g. a 20m sample interval)
of the state of the various processes during startup to get an idea what is 
happening.

Cheers,
Waldo
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