Re: Summary of my Fedora 9 Boot Time Testing

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb redhat com>]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 10:12:59 Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Turning off selinux and related services saves 10s overall boot time.
> Trading off security with boot time. I don't know. But maybe a good
> starting point for optimization.

Programs linked with libselinux open and parse /etc/selinux/config whether 
they need it or not. I've submitted a patch several times (but its not been 
accepted) to do a lazy init of libselinux's internal variables. For example, 
mv, cp. & ls read the file even if they do not need it. I wonder if doing 
lazy init helps any. I'll see if I can update the patch to current code.

-Steve