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Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro
Linzer writes "In this blog entry, Fred Crozat (head of Mandriva's engineering team in France) explains in great detail how his team has been detecting and getting rid of bottlenecks in the boot process, from the early stages to loading the desktop environment, thus decreasing overall boot time. An informative tour of the nuts and bolts of the boot process and how they can be tinkered with: initrd, initscripts, udev, modprobe calls. The basic tool they use for performance analysis is bootchart, which produces a map of process information and resource utilization during boot. The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password."
On topic, My desktop tries to run forever but occasionally a print server or driver will crash and my printer will go berserk requiring a reboot. And as 99% of linux distros are bleeding edge, apps can make the system unstable, also requiring a reboot to clear things out. Ubuntu is notorious for this. Debian stable is usually well behaved but again when put to the test, modules fail and the thing needs reset to a clean slate.
In comparison, M$ often crashes fatally, whereas Linux can be salvaged gracefully.
Off topic: Your sig regarding Sarah Palin quotes. All those are just political rainbows, sunshine, and empty hollow works being blown up your ass. I live in Alaska. She has not done jack shit as Gov after 2 years besides letting the oil companies run the state and taking bribes from them under the table. As a true republican, she believes in pissing down your back and telling you it's raining liquid sunshine.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
So you are proud of wasting power?
If it pisses you off, then it might not be "wasted".
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
No, you stupid fucking idiot. "Their" is a plural pronoun, not a singular pronoun.
"Their" only started being used as a singular pronoun when feminists got their panties in a twist because the the masculine form was also the gender neutral form and felt it was a slight to women.
Now, shut the fuck up and dig your head out of your ass, moron.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Don't "woosh" people for your own failure. That's the part that bothers me.
Don't mistake your failure to understand, by lack of knowledge or anything else, as a failure to communicate on my part. Over-reacting isn't very useful either.
And now you know what the fuck WOL means, so you can stop whining.