The household just got a new Thinkpad X60s, and as a test I tried to speed up the boot of Debian/Lenny on this machine. Started by installing bootchart for measurement, and the initial installation used 48 seconds to boot according to bootchart. This was after a fresh desktop installation.
Next, installed dash and enabled it as /bin/sh, installed insserv and activated dependency based boot, installed readahead (from Sid, the version in Lenny got a few issues) and profiled it. Also enabled concurrent startpar style booting (after patching init.d/rc to fix #481770), and disabled the hwclock*.sh boot scripts (as the machine uses HW clock on GMT and the kernel is already fetching the time before the init.d scripts are started). On the following measurement of the boot time, it was down to 30 seconds (37.5% reduction). To gain further reduction, upgrading to the portmap package uploaded to unstable will cut down 1 second. Not sure what to do after this. Anyone got any clues? Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
