Making Fedora boot faster

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Mon Sep 13 19:48:26 UTC 2010


Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote:
> I thought to make my Fedora system boot faster. For that I thought to
> disable unnecessary kernel modules and services. So I want to know in
> detail what each and every kernel module and service do so that I can
> disable which are no needed. Can anyone here provide me with a
> detailed documentation on the kernel modules and services?

Disabling kernel modules is going to do absolutely nothing for you.

Your kernel boots in a matter of seconds. 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.

The solution? Buy an SSD.

Sincerely,
A Fedora user who boots in less than 8 seconds.


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