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