I demand that Simon Baxter may or may not have written... > I see on the WIKI people have posted boot times, as low as 15 seconds. > My boot time is terrible - haven't timed it, but would imagine it has to be > 180 seconds plus. > I am still running udev (FC3), which seems to take a large amount of time. Try a newer version, or rebuild your kernel to include the drivers which you normally use (rather than load them as modules). > I'm sure I could probably strip out some of the other processes (like the > NTP sync - why is that run at start up!! Surely it should happen in > parallel, not sequentially) That one in particular shouldn't - some daemons may react badly to clock jumps. [snip] -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Debian, | Northumberland | s zap,tartarus,org | RISC OS | Toon Army | @ | We've got Shearer, you haven't Sorry, fresh out of taglines. I'm awaiting a new batch any day now.
