new user, and some questions/comments

[Micha³ Margula]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:30:41 +0000
"John P. Looney" <john at antefacto.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:28:33PM +0000, Michał Margula mentioned:
> > - shutdown (between sending TERM and KILL signals and before unmounting
> > filesystems) so it has nothing to do with booting up
> > - there is one sleep 1 when it asks for a key to enter interactive mode
> > - sleep 5 before initialisation of usb devices
> > - sleep 1 in booting process of mysql
> > 
> > So in worst case you loose 6 seconds. Is it too much? ;-)
> 
>  It's probably that I have lots of services running then!
> 
>  I always wanted to work on a boot process that used "make" instead of
> /etc/rc.d - so that some parts could run in parallel, with make resolving
> dependancies...it's about the only way a workstation with snmpd, apache
> etc. could boot quickly...

My system boots up from Grub to GDM in about 54 seconds, and yours?

My computer is a notebook powered by Celeron 400 and with slow HDD
(8megabytes per second with hdparm). In boot up process it starts - hdparm,
alsa, oidentd, pcmcia modules mysql, httpd, cups, gpm and gdm.

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