Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #306367, revision 28 Title: Boot fast (not just faster) + Hackweek V: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Mandatory openSUSE-11.2: Done Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We need a feature to track the many little pieces needed to make booting fast. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everyone loves fast boot. Other distributions claim to maintain the crown. Discussion: #1: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-04-16 15:44:32) Didn't mean to save the feature yet, sorry. I meant to add: We need a feature to track the many little pieces needed to make booting fast. #3: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) (2009-08-29 15:25:03) Working suspend > fast boot. #4: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-09-07 14:00:07) we boot faster, many testers noted that. If we boot fast enough to ship is up to PM #5: Ulises Vega (usvatechdev) (2009-10-25 19:07:28) Hello, I've read over the comments in https://features.opensuse.org/305326. I'm able to contribute to this feature and not only able but eager of. I'm not a Linux expert but more of a fan with some coding experience :), I'm might need some guidance and ramp up time. Please tell me where to take this discussion to so that I can start getting involved practically. I believe we should follow "a tackle the very root of all evil", if possible. But it is still to be discussed the specific approach to be followed. Thanks for your help. Ulises #6: Roman Bysh (romanator) (2010-01-25 00:05:13) Let's starts asap for 11.3 and get it perfected by the time openSUSE 12.0 milestones are available. #10: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-01-25 16:33:26) (reply to #6) Send in your patches now! #7: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-01-25 12:40:17) bash is a little bloated, and everybody knows it. That is where one should probably start. #9: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-01-25 16:33:11) (reply to #7) "a little bloated"? If you can measure any boot time difference or any sign of bash causing significant portion of the current boot time we should start there. Until then I think you should start with finding out what the problem is instead of claiming things. #8: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-01-25 12:48:28) Oh on another note, some kernel modules were compiled-in in newer kernels (such as ext3). IMHO, the idea is good, but I cannot agree with a number of =y/=m choices that have been done in config/x86_64/default, and the it seems that the discussion we had on the mailing list did not really get anywhere, because people insisted that "oh let's include PIIX=y because that's "common"" (this has reverted as of late, but I'm just saying). CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m should be =y (heavily used, by libata and USB) CONFIG_ATA=m should be =y (used by, well, ATA devices which I guess many have) CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y should be =m (thanks, but I am running ext4/xfs and don't want to waste for ext3). And so on. #11: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2010-01-25 16:34:46) I close this feature as done. Booting fast is mainly about avoid regressions and only in a second step speeding up piece by piece. For 11.2 we integrated tons of patches to boot faster, now the biggest task is ongoing: avoid booting slower. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306367