>>>>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: BN> It should all be cached after the first shell, so that doesn't BN> really help *that* much. Then where is the IO coming from? Obviously some of it comes from the services themselves, and that can't really be eliminated. (Or perhaps it can, but that would be a whole lot of work.) If hacking on the init.d scripts doesn't save any time at all, then the implication is that essentially all of the startup time is in the services. That would be a difficult state of affairs. - J<
