Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hinko Kocevar <hinko.kocevar@××××××.si>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:03:33
Message-Id: 4BC58814.6020009@i-tech.si
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup by Florian Philipp
1 On 04/12/10 18:17, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence.
6 >> Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot
7 >> feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes"), things get
8 >> done about 9 seconds faster that with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no".
9 >>
10 >> Boot time is still at 45 seconds.
11 >>
12 >>
13 >> Can boot be sped up even more?
14 >>
15 >
16 > The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or
17 > SuspendToRam.
18 >
19 > Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is
20 > broken, I hardly ever reboot.
21 >
22
23 I've tried TuxOnIce and I like it! Hibernating to swap works fine for
24 me. It 'boots' in ~10 seconds now :D
25
26 Thanx!
27
28 Best regards,
29 Hinko
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