On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.koce...@i-tech.si> wrote: > On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar <hinko.koce...@i-tech.si> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. >>> Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot >>> feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes"), things get >>> done about 9 seconds faster that with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no". >>> >>> Boot time is still at 45 seconds. >>> >>> >>> Can boot be sped up even more? >>> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Hinko >>> >>> -- >>> Hinko Kocevar >>> Technical support software engineer >>> Instrumentation Technologies >>> Velika pot 22, SI-5250 Solkan - Slovenia >>> T:+386 5 3352600, F:+386 5 3352601 >>> mailto: hinko.koce...@i-tech.si >>> >>> http://www.i-tech.si - When your users demand stability >>> >>> The information transmitted is intended solely for the addressee and may >>> contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, retention, >>> disclosure or other use by persons other than the intended recipient is >>> prohibited. If you received this in error, please notify the sender and >>> delete all copies. >>> >>> >> >> Change to testing branch with base layout 2. Your boot time'll decrease by >> half. >> > > Thank you! > > Hmm, I was looking at the > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. For OpenRC I added > sys-apps/openrc ~x86 to package.keywords, to get baselayout-2 ebuild > I've added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to /etc/make.conf. > > Will it be enough to (re-)build the baselayout and openrc and its > closest dependencies (41 packages)? Or do I need to perform complete > system upgrade (~900 packages) now that ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is present? > > > Best regards, > Hinko > > -- > Hinko Kocevar > Technical support software engineer > Instrumentation Technologies > Velika pot 22, SI-5250 Solkan - Slovenia > T:+386 5 3352600, F:+386 5 3352601 > mailto: hinko.koce...@i-tech.si > > http://www.i-tech.si - When your users demand stability > > The information transmitted is intended solely for the addressee and may > contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any review, retention, > disclosure or other use by persons other than the intended recipient is > prohibited. If you received this in error, please notify the sender and > delete all copies. > >
Be careful about going ~x86. I just went ~amd64. The OpenRC migration is painless. The KDE, gnome, xfce4 part hasn't been for me. I'm likely to remove all environments and apps, add the 41 apps to package.keywords and be done with it, assuming that actually works and doesn't uncover other problems. Read more in a post I just sent before I saw your question. - Mark
