Speeding up boot time?

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 07:21:32 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> What are you doing which is taking time? You can put a tool like btime in
> rc.local to show what the system did during boot, in terms of cpu use and
> iowait.

I don't know about btime but I have used bootchart before. It
generates amazingly detailed charts for the entire boot process. All
you need to do is put init=/sbin/bootchartd in the kernel line and
once you have booted run 'bootchart <outputfile>' to get the chart.

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Suvayu

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