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#1 2009-02-15 23:05:15
- deadlylife
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Background daemons.
What pros/cons does backgrounding all daemons have?
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#2 2009-02-15 23:12:08
- Inxsible
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Re: Background daemons.
What pros/cons does backgrounding all daemons have?
pros - speeds up the boot process
cons - doesn't speed up the boot process
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#3 2009-02-15 23:16:02
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Re: Background daemons.
Could you explain that?
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#4 2009-02-15 23:30:57
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Re: Background daemons.
Could you explain that?
Well if you start all the daemons in the background -- it continues with the normal boot process. Its called multi-tasking. That way, it takes you to the desktop faster because daemons can be started while you are lets say entering your username and password. If you don't start it in the background, the daemons have to start in the order they are listed before it can go on to do other things. So if you had cond before alsa in the DAEMONS array, alsa will not start unless crond has started and so on...
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#5 2009-02-15 23:32:31
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Re: Background daemons.
Is there a way to, if all daemons have not loaded by the time I log in, to stop everything and wait for the rest to start?
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#6 2009-02-15 23:34:56
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Re: Background daemons.
If the daemons load in the background the boot is faster but some daemons may depend on others being loaded before they can load.
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#7 2009-02-15 23:35:17
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Re: Background daemons.
Is there a way to, if all daemons have not loaded by the time I log in, to stop everything and wait for the rest to start?
Well if a particular daemon is important that you want it to start before log in, then you can have it, so that it is not started in background. You can selectively choose which daemons you want to put in the background.
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#8 2009-02-15 23:36:09
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Re: Background daemons.
Okay, thank you, I just tried and they all load by the time I've logged in.
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#9 2009-02-15 23:37:29
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Re: Background daemons.
Okay, thank you, I just tried and they all load by the time I've logged in.
Congratulations on your increased boot speed 
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