Chris Smart wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone got any tips for decreasing boot time? I've done the usual > things, such as disable (what I think are) unnecessary services for a > desktop, but are there any other tips? > > These are the services I'm disabling, please tell me if you think any > of those are a stupid choice: > capi, iscsi, iscsid, isdn, netfs, network, nfs, nfslock, pcscd, > rpcbind, rpcgssd, rpcidmapd, rpcsvcgssd, sendmail > > There used to be a cheat's way of allowing an early login, I think it > was gdm-early-login, but it doesn't seem to exist any more (and that's > probably a bad idea anyway). > 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? 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? Finally, how often do you boot? How long does your boot take now? How much effort is justified in making that faster? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
