Parallel Startup for KDE.

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:32:36PM +0100, C.O.Backstrom wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw this article on the IBM site:
> 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html
> 
> About making Linux boot faster by parallelising the init scripts. The
> author gets around the problem with dependencies like
> 
>      SAMBA---->CUPS
>         |       |
>         +-------+---> Networking
> 
> By using make -j and some nifty makefiles. I find this to be a very nice
> solution to the boot-time problem, and it cuts down boot-time for me
> considerably.
>
neat idea, indeed. i thought about the same some time ago, but didn't
think of make in this context. :)

> I was wondering: Could this (or something similar) be implemented for
> the KDE startup? Or is it already starting up in parallel?
>
i remember we actually serialized some things in kde, because disk
trashing slows down the loading process.
i think with linux 2.6 and an improved dynamic linker (this combiantion
will load entire objects at once instead of loading pages on demand -
this is _way_ faster with modern harddisks) parallelizing might be an
option again, but so far ...

greetings

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