I have little to add to this, however a friend and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago and were wondering if it would be possible to run many of the init scripts in parallel. There seem to be several scripts that could run simultaneously, like bringing up the network and say starting gpm.
anyway, it's only an idea to be thrown on top of the heap..... -Elliott On Thu, 16 May 2002, Oden Eriksson wrote: > On Thursdayen den 16 May 2002 19.31, Cosmic Flo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > There is an interesting post at mandrakeforum.org > > > > An user say that his Mdk is slower than a Win98. I thing he's not wrong. > > By default, there are too many services who are launched at startup > > The only thing I can add to this thread is that the actual boot process takes > longer time the more initscripts and such improves. Just for fun I installed > RH5.2 a couple of months ago, and was amazed how fast it was up and running. > I know it's not a fair comparison between ML8.x and RH5.2, but I experienced > almost the same with a LFS system I built. > > It would be cool with a sort of "speedstart" system, much like the M$ W2K > hibernate stuff (shouldn't be that difficult?). Or, maybe less intricate boot > scripts, options to not have the kernel modules gzipped, etc, etc... ? > > -- > Regards // Oden Eriksson > >
