Speeding up boot process

[Mark Mielke]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:49:16AM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> >What do you think guys if someone did the following to speed the boot
> >time in RHL?
> >- Boot kernel (uncompressible)
> >- Run the init scripts S00 -> S50
> >- Start X + XDM + UserLogin
> >- Continue init scripts S51->S99 in background
> I think this should have been done a long time ago.

Is that really so easy to do, though?

X is normally managed by init, wheras the init scripts are
managed by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.

I think you are suggesting that the current /etc/inittab \ /etc/rc.d
scheme be re-invented. Perhaps it has merit.

It isn't a small change though, at least from a maintenance / portability
perspective...

mark

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