On 09/14/2010 06:39 AM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:48 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> The real time waster is that piece of hardware you call a hard disk >> drive. All of the services started up cause some heavy disk I/O that >> no rotating drive can handle very well. > Or, the real time waster is loads of services starting up. And services > that take an age to read their config files, and depend on other > services... > > Having played with other *ixs, the past, I've used ones that booted in a > blink of an eye, even on dead slow hardware, because they didn't start a > gazillion services. > I have already posted and advice to the OP to run system-config-services and disable all services s/he does not need. Not sure if s/he followed through or not. We have not heard from the OP the result of doing so. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines