On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > What are you doing which is taking time? You can put a tool like btime in > rc.local to show what the system did during boot, in terms of cpu use and > iowait. Are you mounting filesystems which could be mounted after the login > prompt is up? Are you doing network operations which could wait? Is your system > assembling a bunch of software raid arrays? I think it's generally fast enough, I was just wondering if there are other tricks. I have played with bootchart to see what's happening - mostly it seems to be limited by I/O, so maybe time for a new faster drive. > > Do some probing to see if you are doing work which could wait, or if your > hardware is just not up to the load. Have you tuned your readahead? Tried the > 'fastboot' option on the kernel command line? Didn't know about fastboot, thanks and is there a way to reset readahead, so that it starts again? Over time one adds and removed services, so that might be worthwhile. > > Finally, how often do you boot? How long does your boot take now? How much > effort is justified in making that faster? Probably not justified much, but I do turn my machine off every day. Thanks for your suggestions. -c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
