On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:06:15AM +0200, Raúl Moratalla wrote: > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Will Fedora core 2 parallelize linux system services to improve boot > speed? I think that the latest version of Mandrake is doing it, and it > boots very fast. With a quick look, it does not. Look at: readahead_early and readahead in FC2 I believe that they are new,,, see below. If you are bold you can add timers to each of the rc files and get some statistics. Then add background (&) commands to selected ones. Check for start etc so the right things happen. Do this with care as many boot activities depend on a previous action completing. It is important to find the slow ones that do not clutter the dependency tree of the boot process. About... readahead_early and readahead in FC2 --- # readahead: Prereads programs required for startup into memory # # chkconfig: 5 96 99 # description: This service causes the programs used during startup \ # to be loaded into memory before they are needed,\ # thus improving startup performance # ==== The two differ in their input data file. /etc/readahead.early.files /etc/readahead.files The list of files including libraries and fonts is long. Perhaps long enough that local pruning and tuning may apply. -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.
