boot time challenge

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Oct 8 20:25:34 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:08:39 -0400
> Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> That does seem pretty impressive. Any chance Fedora will
>> accept the challenge and work on its boot time?
> 
> Considering the frequency that the average Fedora (or any Linux-based)
> computer gets rebooted, I don't see this as being any concern at all.

With the frequency of kernel updates, a lot of people reboot quite
often.

Work is being done on this.  I don't know how large any gains are, but
you can track the feature on the wiki:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBootShutdownSpeedup

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