Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Marcel Hilzinger <mhilzinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2009 13:18:23 schrieb Olaf Kirch:
> On Friday 20 February 2009 13:12:42 Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
> > Forget about this posting. I've definitively gained 10 seconds through
> > disabling different services at boot, but it's definitively not crond,
> > auditd and sshd. The speedup seems to been related to the SSD/and or the
> > CPU, as on an Atom-System without ssd drive there is almost no speedup
> > with disabling services.
>
> Yes, that is to be expected. If you have a spinning disk, the biggest
> problem is the IO not being fast enough - the disk head seeks are
> dominating erverything else. Something can be gained from preloading
> data (ie start to load it into the cache before the application asks
> for it, so that we eliminate the seek wait) but results vary a lot
> here.

Thanks for the explanation. 

> Have you looked at http://en.opensuse.org/Boottime/Boot_time already?
I did in the meantime ;-)



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