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Booting Linux Faster
krony writes "IBM's DeveloperWorks explains how to decrease boot times for your Linux box. The concept is to load system services in parallel when possible. Most surprising to me is the use of 'make' to handle dependencies between services." The example system shown is able to cut its boot time in half, but the article stresses the effectiveness can vary widly from machine to machine.
Like any Linux user is gonig to reset their uptime just to see if they can boot faster!
Height: 38U, Weight: 0 Newtons, Eyes: #0000FF, OS: Gray Matter 1.0 (Alpha)
you insensitive clod!
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.
If Douglas Adams is so damn smart, why is he dead?
Yup.. just keep talking about that and wonder why Linux never becomes mainstream.
Because mainstream means rebooting every day! Twice on Sundays.
Remember to turn back the uptime when you sell your computer.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Visio?! Easy! You take Visio 2003. Generate XMI. Then - apply some XSLT stylesheet to create build.xml for the ant tool. Then use ant instead of make as startup tool. So you got visual design for you startup sequence!
What really sucks is the 497.1 day uptime rollover bug. Apparently it has been fixed, but that doesn't help us who booted before it.
If you were to drop someone with no knowledge of electricity into a room with a switch, and they flicked that switch, they'd be surprised when the light comes on, despite it being "obvious".
And if the light were a nice bright halogen lamp, it might even be blindingly obvious!
(Terribly sorry.. couldn't resist...)