libinit idea

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Matthias Gamsjager <mgamsjager at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Bruno Lauzé <brunolauze at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > It's really good to read the comments and see people point of view on
> this
> > topic.
> > I totally agree RC system is really good and stable, easy and extensible.
> > The main concern I have here is performance. Starting a system is really
> > slow.
> > Boot to X (with simple xdm) is minimum 25 secs and I just feel there's
> > something to do to cut this delay.
> >
>
>
>
> How about delaying the startup of services that are not necessary right at
> the start. For example sshd, samba etc could be loaded after xdm ( or even
> after the DE has loaded).


On my core i5 with regular hdd I get:
23sec to boot kernel
13sec from mounted root to slim login promp.

Fixing the kernel boot time seems like a bigger gain, imho.

Best regards
Andreas