Bootup speed for F8

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:18 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mark (markg85 at gmail.com) said: 
> > Here is my bootchart [1]. It's was with the normal fedora setup but
> > with apache and mysql added.
> > 
> > In my bootchart i see something i rather don't see.. about 7 seconds
> > nothing in the begin. and the overall speed seems about half of what
> > could be reached... so if that was optimized:
> > 
> > 50 sec - 7 (pure nothing) = 43 seconds.
> 
> So, that seven seconds could be two things:
> 
> 1) bootchart weirdness (as it's from when bootchart starts)
> 2) hotplug issues with a driver in the initrd not initializing right
> 
> Beyond that, the two big gaps I see are when X starts - we're working
> on helping fix this.

I hit most of the low-hanging fruit for X startup performance already in
rawhide.  The rest is... harder.

- ajax