Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > On Thursday 27 September 2012 15:05:00 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> My system boots to the login prompt in about 8 seconds without it. How > >> much time do you think it might save? > > > > My system boots to login in around 10 seconds, and when I use KDM an > > additional 20 seconds. So I was hoping it might cut half of the 10 > seconds at > > least... > > > > I use a laptop which means it gets restarted a lot, so every second > counts... > > I can understand that, but the difference you describe is basically the > same as running startx which does little more than run xinit. I suppose > that you might be able to save a couple of seconds by starting kdm a > couple of seconds earlier, but I doubt you will be able to notice a > difference without measuring (e.g. stopwatch). > > The main reasons commercial distros take so long to come up is that they > have lots of unneeded drivers in their initrd and each one tries to see > if their hardware is present. LFS saves a lot of time by skipping the > initrd and not using modules. > > I'll be interested in what you are able to discover. > > > -- Bruce > > >From what I understand the main time benefits gained from deploying Systemd are in shutdown rather than boot.
Richard
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