Preload delays shutting down
Hi I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system shutdown. A lot of time passes with messages announcing that preload is "laying out" various applications. This is irritating. Waiting a long time for a computer to shut down is more frustrating than waiting for it to start up. I am curious to know what is going on during this phase. I would especially like to know if there is any way to bypass this step in the shutdown process without breaking preloading entirely? Alistair
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:11, Alistair Hamilton wrote:
Hi
I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system shutdown.
A lot of time passes with messages announcing that preload is "laying out" various applications. This is irritating. Waiting a long time for a computer to shut down is more frustrating than waiting for it to start up.
I can imagine it is only so when you're waiting to plug it off and do some hardware upgrade. Otherwise, why would you need to wait for it to shut down? You can go about your business and leave it to do it by itself.
Hello, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
I can imagine it is only so when you're waiting to plug it off and do some hardware upgrade.
Otherwise, why would you need to wait for it to shut down? You can go about your business and leave it to do it by itself.
No. There are a lot of other situations: - you better not put your notebook in your bag while HDD is spinning madly - to be environmentally friendly, I turn off elecricity complettly in my computer room, when I'm not working there -> I have to stay there until all computers are shut down, and then pull the plug. Both happen more then once a day. Bye, CzP
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 07:01, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:11, Alistair Hamilton wrote:
Hi
I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system shutdown.
A lot of time passes with messages announcing that preload is "laying out" various applications. This is irritating. Waiting a long time for a computer to shut down is more frustrating than waiting for it to start up.
I can imagine it is only so when you're waiting to plug it off and do some hardware upgrade.
Otherwise, why would you need to wait for it to shut down? You can go about your business and leave it to do it by itself.
Hi Several instances. I run SUSE on a laptop that sometimes needs to be rebooted into another operating system. The additional wait for SUSE to shut down is annoying. (It is not always possible to do a software suspend because there is a shared partition.) This other OS manages to shut itself down cleanly in about 5 seconds. SUSE takes nearer 20. Alistair
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 02 January 2006 22:11, Alistair Hamilton wrote:
Hi
I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system shutdown.
A lot of time passes with messages announcing that preload is "laying out" various applications. This is irritating. Waiting a long time for a computer to shut down is more frustrating than waiting for it to start up.
I don't like both of them, especially when it's done for applications that I don't use.
I can imagine it is only so when you're waiting to plug it off and do some hardware upgrade.
Otherwise, why would you need to wait for it to shut down? You can go about your business and leave it to do it by itself.
A laptop is for use e.g. when you are on the road. I use it in the train and have to switch trains. Everytime I close my laptop it takes too much time and it takes battery life too. So I agree with the question. Is it best to remove preloading or is there a better way? There are applications preloaded that I never use, the applications I do use are not preloaded... I know I can change that, but I don't understand the choice made: which applications are preloaded and which are not. Is it not possible to adapt it dynamically? Look which applications are used, preload them and don't preload applications that are not used. Best regards, Aschwin Marsman -- aschwin@marsman.org http://www.marsman.org
You wrote:
I am puzzled as to what is going on with preload during a system shutdown.
There has been a bug filed for this at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=117023 already. You should use the fix from comment #2 as it is IMHO the easiest way to fix this issue. In order to slow down booting as little as possible you should probably combine that with ionice (man ionice). Regards nordi _______________________________________________________________________ Goldfishbowl - der große Angelwettbewerb Wer fängt die meisten Punkte? Werfen Sie Ihre Angel aus, und versuchen Sie wertvolle Gegenstände an den Haken zu bekommen. Viel Spaß und Petri Heil wünscht Tiscali! http://www.tiscali.de/game/goldfishbowl.php
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