Booting and login - why are users not logged in automatically?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 10:00 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:

> Scott James Remnant writes:
> > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:14 -0400, Evan wrote:
> > 
> > > However, given this default you raise a good point that ureadahead
> > > should be optimized for this option, not for auto-login.
> > > 
> > We don't have the hooks in place to do that; this would mean that
> > ureadahead stopped once desktop login was complete,
> 
> What's involved in optimizing ureadahead for one task or another?
> 
Nothing.

> Do you take an actual list of files that get opened during the
> startup process somehow, then turn it into a file list by hand?
> Are there tools to help with it?
> 
No, we trace the list of files that actually get opened during the
startup process.

> If someone wanted to go about optimizing ureadahead on their own
> system, what would you recommend?
> 
ureadahead is always optimised for your own system.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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