Summary of my Fedora 9 Boot Time Testing

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 23:40:22 UTC 2008


Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 10:12:59 Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Turning off selinux and related services saves 10s overall boot time.
>> Trading off security with boot time. I don't know. But maybe a good
>> starting point for optimization.
> 
> Programs linked with libselinux open and parse /etc/selinux/config whether 
> they need it or not. I've submitted a patch several times (but its not been 
> accepted) to do a lazy init of libselinux's internal variables. For example, 
> mv, cp. & ls read the file even if they do not need it. I wonder if doing 
> lazy init helps any. I'll see if I can update the patch to current code.
> 
> -Steve

you may share the patch after the update (-: , so that I can measure, how much effect it has on my system…

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