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Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro

Posted by timothy on from the replace-the-disembarculator dept.

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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  1. her? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:her? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      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)

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  2. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by meringuoid · · Score: 5, Funny
    Some people power down their computers at night.

    How can they sleep without the soothing fan noise?

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  3. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by smellsofbikes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have fanless computers, you insensitive clod!

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  4. Nice Try! by BigAssRat · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  5. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by value_added · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  6. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by BigGar' · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  7. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by flosofl · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  8. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 4, Funny

    It turns out that batteries also involve electricity.

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