Phil Endecott wrote: > Paul Menzel wrote: >> Anyway I was thinking that not only EeePC users are interested in this >> but also owners of other netbooks and for example thin client users and >> Debian users in general. >> >> So I am wondering how we could get these other interested people >> involved and to participate? >> >> I came up with the following. >> >> ? Create a dedicated page in the Debian Wiki. I did not find one. >> ? Setup a dedicated mailing list on Alioth. >> >> What do you think? Do you have more ideas? > > Would you have seen my work if I had put it on a Wiki page rather than > posting here? Or on some other Debian list? > > One issue is that Arjan and Aoke's original work itself seems to be > "homeless" i.e. there is no obvious mailing list, wiki or similar where > it should be discussed. > > It would be great to see this applied to more systems. Of course > generic fast booting is harder than hacking one particular system (i.e. > hardware and combination of installed packages). I have done two > things that should help with this: > > - My script to take your kernel .config and convert modules to > built-ins for the things that you actually use (see this message: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.eeepc/1015/focus=1050). > If Debian had a way to make a custom kernel, it could use this script > to help generate its config. > > - The mods to /etc/init.d/udev that I described yesterday for > pre-populating /dev aren't tied to any particular system and can cope > with upgrades if you re-generate its tar file. > > It would be great if some Debian people would like to use what I've > done as a starting point for getting all Debian systems to boot more > quickly. However, my guess is that there would not be agreement that > the benefits outweigh the costs: the current Debian boot process did > not emerge by accident. I fear that I don't have the energy to push > this into Debian myself. (And I also have about a million other things > that I should be doing.) > >> could you please post your current timings for booting? > > Currently the time from the end of grub to the xdm login dialog being > visible is 17 seconds. But these numbers are difficult to compare > because of different features (e.g. xdm vs. gnome, wireless on/off etc.) > > I am impressed by Jelle's "14 to 17 seconds". The posted graph shows > 17 seconds, but in my experience it is a few seconds from the end of > that graph to the X login dialog being visible. Jelle, can you measure > (with a watch) the time from the end of grub to the X login dialog appearing? > > I hope to get this down to about 12 seconds. > > Phil. >
I have to check this out sometime, the boot graph was of a slow start with lots of usb devices mouse keyboard bluetooth and dvb-t system. Also my network is non parallel with X because I got major issues with this during shutdown (network was not logged down yet for unmounting sshfs mounts so the disk did not unmount correctly) good parallel network can save 2 to 10 seconds depending on manual or dhcp based internet) I am very interested in a good manual to speed up udev en preloaded kernel modules this will probably get my boot time down drastically. Best regards, Jelle _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
