Speeding up boot process 3640
On Fri, 13 May 2005 23:19:53 GMT, Erix staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Edit the rc files which start those services, and change them all to run asynchronously. You don't need to wait for cups, lmsensors and ntpd to...
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Tell us which version of which distro you're using, so we can offer you concrete advice instead of generalities. Disable kudzu if you have a distro that uses that. Start init scripts in parallel instead of sequentially if possible--you can do this on Gentoo, but it may be difficult on Redhat-derived things. Make sure the network is set up properly if you're starting things like sendmail or sshd. Provide the RAM, CPU, and disk-where---is specs, since a P150 with 48M and a 3000 RPM disk will boot more slowly than an Athlon XP 2500 with 1G and a 7200 RPM disk no matter what you do.
If you have a SCSI card, say so. Some SCSI BIOSes take 15-30 seconds to get their act together. Since those things run before the bootloader gets control, there's nothing you can do about it except poke around the menus of the SCSI BIOS itself.
No. It could actually make things slower, since depmod -a is run during sysinit on many distros. You should usually use modules, though, because some useful things like PPP compression, PCMCIA-cs, and the evil binary-only 3D modules for various graphics cards *can't* be compiled into the kernel.
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