Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143408
Better load times.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:57 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Additional info: Fedora Core is used as non-production (desktop) system by many users, and developers. For those like me, the load time, before I can login and start using the system can be high. The solutions is of course, not to start some services. Yet, I've managed a simple solution. I created a "10 runlevel" where I put those services I need, like mysql, apache, sendmail, etc... When gnome and/or kde starts a 10 runlevel init is called. This way those services are loaded only if I whish, and after the system is running. Also, many services are subject to what u are doing. An applet to quickly start/stop services based in profiles like "work at project A", "work at project B", "home and games", would be nice.
This is out of scope for system-config-services. While I agree with long boot times being a problem I don't think the approach you suggest is the right solution. Different approaches to reduce boot times are and have been discussed at fedora-devel-list, perhaps you should participate there. NB: IIRC there are quite some tools who would have problems with non-single-digit runlevels.