Boot Time Update
October 7th, 2008After posting about my experiences trying to decrease my own boot times it was interesting to read this LWN.net article about two Intel developers getting Fedora to boot on the Asus EEE PC in under 5 seconds.
One item I found very relevant to my own experience was that they stopped the setroubleshootd service from starting as it took 5 seconds. Using both the Fedora and the vanilla kernel, stopping setroubleshootd shaved 4 seconds off my boot time, so now the vanilla 2.6.26.5 kernel boots in 29 seconds and the Fedora kernel in 39.
Of course not may people are going to go to these lengths to boot in 5 seconds but what matters is that they have shown it is possible and it sets a focus on the issues which will inevitably filter down to ‘normal’ users such as myself.
