Kenneth Porter (shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > --On Friday, July 23, 2004 8:21 AM +0200 Hans de Goede > <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> wrote: > > >The basic idea is todo things the XP way and loads lotts of (cr)app(s) > >while the user is already seeing a GUI. > > Paraphrasing Knuth, premature optimization is a bad investment. Before we > start down this road, let's see some measurements showing exactly how much > time each step in the boot process takes. We can then decide where to > invest effort to improve with the limited development resources available. > > Has anyone instrumented the boot process? For example, syslogging each > initscript to get a timestamp would tell us how much time was spent in each > one. It's been oprofiled a couple of times... the majority of the time seems spent in disk I/O. :/ Bill
