Boot times,services and packages

Markus Hitter mah at jump-ing.de
Mon Oct 27 19:22:52 UTC 2008


Am 27.10.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:

> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
>> Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>        There are three services which on my system which just take
>>>> cycles other than doing anything. (or so I believe)
>>>>
>>>> a. nvidia-kernel (no nvidia card so useless)
>>>> b. bluetooth (no support for bluetooth in the motherboard, so
>>>> useless again)
>>>> c. laptop-mode ( this is a desktop, although do have a UPS)
>>>
>>> I've asked about Bluetooth on a non-bluetooth mobo before, and it  
>>> was
>>> pointed out that since you can have a Bluetooth USB dongle, getting
>>> rid
>>> of the computer's ability to notice that you plugged one in might
>>> not be
>>> a good thing.
>>
>> As I can plug in such a dongle at any time, where's the urgent need
>> to search for one at boot time?
>>
>> The solution in the bluetooth arena would probably to initialize the
>> mechanism, but to move the search for an actual device to the
>> background.
>
> Isn't that what it does? It just starts up the service that watches  
> for
> a dongle.

What's the OP complaining about, then? I must admit, I didn't do my  
own benchmarks.


MarKus

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