[LinuxUsers] boot speeds

[Chris Penn]

http://bit.ly/Gc1sa

This article shows you options to increase the speed with which Linux
boots, including two options for parallelizing the initialization
process. It also shows you how to visualize graphically the
performance of the boot process (ie. bootchart).

chris...

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, John Rivera <cray4.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> hmm, it looks very interesting, im installing right now
>>
>> You can use bootchart to see where things are taking the most time too,
>> http://www.bootchart.org/
>> http://www.bootchart.org/images/bootchart.png
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, John Rivera <cray4.linux at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > if you want a fast boot you might want to compile all the programs
>> >> yourself(including the kernel), linux from scratch and gentoo are good
>> >> for
>> >> that, also ubuntu 9.10(beta) boots much faster than 9.04, even
>> >> the net-book remix
>> >>
>> >> >Most of these recommendations are old school (been around for awhile)
>> >> >and as such should be safe.
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks for the article,  I know that some distros do some of these
>> >> >optimizations on their own, but lately I haven't checked.  I was even
>> >> >thinking about reinstalling the original OS to my EeePC because the
>> >> >Ubuntu NBR I'm using takes way to long to boot.
>> >> >
>> >> >I'm know downloading Linpus Lite to check the performance of that
>> >> >distro.  I'll likely use some of the optimizations in the article ;-)
>> >> >
>> >> >--Manny
>>
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