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."

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her?

[gEvil (beta)]

The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password.

A female Linux user?!? You can compile and install Gentoo while waiting for that to happen. : p

Re:her?

[Anonymous Coward]

A female Linux user?!? You can compile and install Gentoo while waiting for that to happen. : p

Hey! I thought I was a real woman (and people with your point of view were extinct by now)

--
laura.

Re:her?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be silly, the only "one" that should feel bad about it is "Linux" ;-)

IOW: if this is to be taken as a critique, of course it's a critique on Linux (system/community), not on women.

I couldn't care less

[Anonymous Coward]

I am sure both Mandriva users will be very happy.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[meringuoid]

Some people power down their computers at night.

How can they sleep without the soothing fan noise?

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[smellsofbikes]

I have fanless computers, you insensitive clod!

password

[neaorin]

"The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password"

My password is just the letter 'a'. Like in 'apple'. No luck for me then.

Nice Try!

[BigAssRat]

NICE try "Steve" or is it "Mr. Jobs"? Attempting to infiltrate our "Linux discussion" with your MAC hype!!

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[value_added]

My bedroom contains exactly three things that use electricity. The alarm clock, the waterbed heater, and the ceiling fan/light fixture.

So, what the wife uses is ... battery-powered?

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[michrech]

There is no wife/girlfriend, thankyouverymuch.

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Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[BrentH]

Real Dolls don't need any power.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[hedleyroos]

I love how Blakey Rat and pm_rat_posion are chatting. You'd think they'd be enemies.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[BigGar']

You just call in a contractor as the project requires, eh?

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[Anonymous Coward]

> There is no wife/girlfriend, thankyouverymuch.

Mod Parent Redundant. This is Slashdot, after all. :-)

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[CaptainZapp]

I'm alergic to fan noise.

You insensitive clod.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[flosofl]

Plus it is a duel boot...

To the death or will first blood satisfy the honor of these OS's? And do the cellphone and PDA act as seconds?

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[Zero__Kelvin]

It turns out that batteries also involve electricity.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[davidsyes]

Is there a pre-.... position missing here?

I'm trying to figure:

Some people hibernate IN their computers at night.

Some people hibernate ON their computers at night.

Some people hibernate UNDER their computers at night.

Some people hibernate WITH their computers at night.

Is there a Borg in the house?

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[vtcodger]

***They threw in enough fixes till it roughly worked on Windows and then it was considered good enough to ship.***

Yep, that's the zen of USB. In the 1990s there was a competing school of thought that said you ship after three months whether it works on Windows or not.