On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:47, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:12, Bill Nottingham wrote:
John Hearns (John.Hearns@micromuse.com) said:
Have a look at the Serel Fastboot project.
It's been tested. It didn't appreciably help.
OK, but is a speedup of boot process planned? How? I'm sure a simple solution could be implemented easily. But it must be an agreed upon one and a one that would have interest from packagers... Do you have any preferred way to do that? Or is it just not planned/not useful in your opinion?
After having tried various things, and timed them, we tend to be a lot less confident that a simple solution could be implemented easily.
The vast majority of startup time seems to be reading stuff of the disk; parallelizing init scripts doesn't help with that. Starting up GDM earlier may work, but with the downsides that:
- You have to figure out what services are safe to start after login. - You may have a unresponsive system during login.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=startuptime
is a recently created tracker bug for this issue.
Regards, Owen