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."

Comments

Re:password

[Taibhsear]

OT but had to reply.
My stepfather growing up wasn't too bright and would constantly blame me for him screwing up the computer and putting passwords on the login. So I set up the computer with the letter 'a' as the password to mess with him. Got reamed out so I changed it. Took off the password but left it set up to have to actually login. He still couldn't get in. Seriously, who the hell doesn't try the enter button as the first attempt to login if they don't know the password? Took his dumb ass 10 minutes before I told him just to hit the enter button. Boy was he salty...

Re:It's not Linux that's slow

[BloodyIron]

We know what?

Try again please.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[Blakey Rat]

If it takes 2 people to explain what your original post meant, one being you and the other being a helpful poster who didn't know what L2 meant any more than I did, then you did a shitty job of communication, period. That doesn't bother me, though.

Don't "woosh" people for your own failure. That's the part that bothers me.

Re:I don't suspend to disk...

[Enderandrew]

openSUSE 11 is pretty incredible, and light years better than 10. You should check it out.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[amRadioHed]

I don't tell them what to do, so they should kindly shut the hell up

Hmm

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[davidsyes]

The same way they can't sleep without the "soothing fan boyz"? (those who would touch or fawn over their ass, blow and coo-coo-coo on it, and sponge bathe-it.... Wait... wrong thread... (Ducks from congresspersons...)