14 Sep
2010
14 Sep
'10
8:52 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:09:34 +0930 Tim wrote:
The real time waster is that piece of hardware you call a hard disk drive. All of the services started up cause some heavy disk I/O that no rotating drive can handle very well.
Or, the real time waster is loads of services starting up. And services that take an age to read their config files, and depend on other services...
In my observation the real time waster is the initrd processing desperately trying to enumerate all the raids and lvms and wot-not that I don't have on my system :-).