Friday, June 09, 2006
Margarita's guidelines
Another post about google's SoC project to improve the boot process written from sunny Ireland!
With the first deliverable deadline nearby, I've been preparing the computer I'll use for playing with the boot process with different distributions. Iv'e lately installed debian woody and will be comparing it with Etch and Sarge (as freshly installed).
From the blog of Margarita Manterola got some interesting guidelines of what to do for the beginning of the project [1]. As she had already tested boot times for several processes and got a 20 second improvement for Etch (reduced boot time to 60%!!) it looks like there is hope. It would be great to be able to watch the recorded presentation (hopefully soon to be available).
So new hotspots identified:
[2] http://www.fastboot.org
With the first deliverable deadline nearby, I've been preparing the computer I'll use for playing with the boot process with different distributions. Iv'e lately installed debian woody and will be comparing it with Etch and Sarge (as freshly installed).
From the blog of Margarita Manterola got some interesting guidelines of what to do for the beginning of the project [1]. As she had already tested boot times for several processes and got a 20 second improvement for Etch (reduced boot time to 60%!!) it looks like there is hope. It would be great to be able to watch the recorded presentation (hopefully soon to be available).
So new hotspots identified:
- setting up the hardware clock in the background
- improve cpu use when starting the desktop manager.
- make the boot less verbose
- serel -> claims to get at least an 8% faster booting process (using parallelizaton). An interesting choice documented in [2].
- rcpar -> claimed to have the same functionality as the shell concurrency of /etc/init.d/rc with better handling of the output.
[2] http://www.fastboot.org
# posted by Carlos Villegas @ 2:32 AM 
