[LinuxUsers] boot speeds

[Peter Manis]

This was one of my better bootchart images.  I didnt spend any time tweaking
the system, but when my desktop is back in my hands I will see how fast I
can get it.  I may even build an i7 system instead of having my desktop
shipped to me.
I think before I had vmware installed and had some services starting I was
at 0:12s but I can't find the image for it, I owe the speed to the OCZ
vertex.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Michael Gorman <craterburnsyou at gmail.com>wrote:

> I use Jolicloud on my netbook and it starts up pretty quickly.
> I believe it was based on ubuntu as well, but it has very narrow support
> for only specific netbooks, and you have sign up and wait to get invited
> into the beta for it.
>
> Michael Gorman
> http://michaeljgorman.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Manny <vectormax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Update,
>> No luck with Linpus...
>> The image was for the AspireOne netbook only.
>>
>> I installed xubuntu in a rush last night and only after I was done did
>> I realize it was regular xubuntu and not eeexubuntu that has all the
>> drivers for wifi etc.
>>
>> I'm at a coffee shop now and just built the drivers from scratch.  I
>> was impressed that xubuntu had full development tools included.
>> Too many distros do not even include gcc in the basic install.
>>
>> Luckily I had a folder with the madwifi driver source on my sd card.
>> Took about 10 mins to build, install and connect.
>>
>> This version of xubuntu is based on ubuntu 9.04.
>> Even this seems faster than NBR.
>>
>> I'll see if I can optimize it a bit to lower the boot times.  I need
>> to establish a benchmark first.
>>
>> Later...
>> --Manny
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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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