Summary of my Fedora 9 Boot Time Testing

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 11:31:53 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 12:14 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Boot time:
> 35s without selinux  and without auditd
> 40s with selinux + auditd + restorecond
> 45s with selinux + auditd + restorecond + setroubleshootd
> 
> I can live without setroubleshootd..
Setroubleshootd should be made to start up on demand when an AVC is
generated or it should be split to two parts - a lightweight listener
for AVCs + heavy analyzer part which would be executed only on demand.
>From the boot charts it is clear that it is one of the most resource
hungry things in the boot sequence.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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