On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:00, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2004 02:44 pm, Tianran Chen wrote: > hi all, > > i am using a laptop, so i reboot very frequently. i have been tried to > make the booting process faster for a long time. right now, i had done > following reduction on my system: > > 1) NO X at all (use emacs and links in framebuffer). > 2) no modules at all, everything in kernel. > 3) no network, cron. > > with these reductions i lower the booting time to 19s with kernel 2.4.22. > however, with kernel 2.6.1 now it took more than 25s to boot, partially > due to hotplug and alsa. > > is there anything i can do to make it even faster? 10s will be my goal. > thanks for any idea! > I've done similar things and also did the following... I dumped devfs and hotplug. I turned off all the daemons that start stuff at boot time that I really don't need started at boot time like ntd, consolefonts, samba, pcmcia, etc.... It'll boot a bit faster that way, but you won't make any great gains as sooner or later you'll be starting them up anyway....
