Faster is nice but ...

Posted Sep 20, 2003 17:51 UTC (Sat) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Faster is nice but ... by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Boot Linux faster (IBM developerWorks)

While we might tune a system for faster reboots which this technique, it begs the main questions (why are we rebooting). The cost of a few minutes in rc script handling on each reboot is amortized over months of uptime in the common case of production servers.

I think, this article is written to those people who use Linux on their desktops at home like me. They don't keep the PC turned on 24/7 and reboot to an other operating system frequently to play a game or browse some "IE-only" site. They might "enjoy" a Linux booting process 2-3 times a day. But I think the seconds won by starting some services parallel are negligible to the minute KDE 2 takes to start up...

Bye,NAR