On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 10:51 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> I think the best place to put this pre-load optimization is the same
> place Windows XP, (I think MacOSX,) and FC4 put it: On boot they read
> into RAM a working set of files optimally arranged on disk (100MB should
> take a couple seconds), so that (hopefully) starting GNOME should rarely
> ever seek to disk.
The Canonical people have been working on this for Hoary as well, and I
believe an Thinkpad X40 can go from power-on to GDM in under 30 seconds.
The next step as I understand it is to readahead the panel, nautilus,
etc, so that a login is very quick.
Ross
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