Since gdm-2.20* bump, seems that prefetch is being enabled using "--with-prefetch" option, the problem is that config file is not pointing to correct prefetch executable and config file containing files to be prefetched is adapted to Solaris instead of gentoo linux Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 147285 [details, diff] ebuilds.diff This diff adapts ebuild
Created attachment 147287 [details, diff] gdmprefetchlist-gentoo.patch This is for change files locations from solaris to gentoo
Created attachment 147290 [details] ebuild.diff Sorry, ebuilds.diff was wrong
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=147287) [edit] > gdmprefetchlist-gentoo.patch > > This is for change files locations from solaris to gentoo > If you think that prefetching tomboy is excesive, please ping me. I added it because I use tomboy a lot and users that won't want it would simply don't get it installed, then, not preloaded I can also adapt ubuntu patch if you want: http://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gdm/extracted/36_update_prefetch_lists.patch I think that would be great get this fixed for gdm-2.20.4 and gnome-2.22, then, if you need more info feel free to ask me for it, I will help (if I am able of course :-)) Thanks
Created attachment 164638 [details] gdm.ebuild.diff Just tested with 2.20.8
Created attachment 164639 [details, diff] gdmprefetchlist2.patch Updated patch with more files added merging integrating ubuntu patch
after discussing this on irc, it appears wiser to just use preload (which I'm evaluating on my main box for now) because it's a completely DE independant solution and gdm 2.24 as a matter of fact dropped this setting. Closing wontfix.
OK, this seems very reasonable for me, I read something about it in http://blog.crozat.net/2008/09/improving-boot-time-on-general-linux.html and preload seems a better option
