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:Interesting but how useful, really?

[Anonymous Coward]

I pay an electricity bill so I'll use as much as I damn well want. Mind your own business.

Re:Interesting but how useful, really?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"This response illustrates a phenomenon my friends in the business refer to as:

"More friendly advice from the helpful Linux community""

Tell your friends that we in the Linux community don't really care what people in the child pr0n business think.