On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:58:15 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Well, it's an obvious time savings point that starting the X server once is faster than starting the X server, killing it, and starting it again. It's just a matter of how much... :)
This is one of the things I always hated about rhgb the most (still used it though ;)
The nVidia binary drivers take ages to initialize, as in 5+ seconds on my system: doing this twice just felt incredibly wasteful and definitely slowed things down.
Of course, starting services I don't need/want like cups doesn't help either ...