IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "BN" == Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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<