[systemd-devel] Improve boot-time of systemd

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, fykcee1 at gmail.com <fykcee1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/3/18 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at profusion.mobi>:
>>  2. should we do (or have a way to) force a manual ordering to help
>> Xorg/DM/WM by avoiding spawn of concurrent services? We know these
>> have the higher priority, but it's a higher priority only during
>> startup, later on they should all have the same priority... otherwise
>> we could just do it by means of systemd's service settings.
> I prefer to start UI first, and then UI notifies systemd to start more services.
> The original boot sequence seems server-oriented, and I need
> desktop-oriented boot sequence -- let most services start AFTER a
> usable basic UI popup.
>

KDM/GDM get really confused when host name changes after they are
started. And I have seen complaints that displayed host name is wrong.
So it probably should depend at least on network being available.