I read the threads about boot performance effort an preload settings and wanted to do some tests by my own. So I just startet to disable the automatically startet services one by one via YaST, here the results (Phenom II System with Intel SSD, boot time measured from Grub to XDM (XFCE-System) Default OpenSuse 11.1: 25 seconds with crond, auditd and sshd disabled: 15 seconds So 10 seconds only by disabling crond, auditd and sshd at boot time. No preload experiments no other changes. Usually you want auditd at boot time, so maybe this is not a good idea to disable it, but it might be a good starting point for improvement. Also sshd does not have to be started at boot time, as it's blocked by the firewall anyway, so you can just leave ssh away and tell users to enable it, if they need it. (I hate Ubuntu for doing so, but an average user does not need sshd anyway). Crond is probably not needed during boot process neighter, so there just has to be a solution to start it later, after X. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG, Putzbrunner Str. 71, 81739 München, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 34 110, Fax: +49 89 99 34 1199 mhilzinger@linuxnewmedia.de - http://www.linuxnewmedia.de ---------------------------------------------------------- Linux New Media, the Pulse of Open Source: Lawrence, KS - Málaga Manchester - München - São Paulo - Timisoara - Warszawa ---------------------------------------------------------- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Putzbrunner Str. 71, 81739 München Amtsgericht München: HRB 129161 Vorstand: Rosemarie Schuster, Hermann Plank Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Rudolf Strobl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org