Gutsy speed

[andy baxter]

andy baxter wrote:
> Jef Driesen wrote:
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>> Davide Corio wrote:
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>>> Il giorno gio, 06/12/2007 alle 13.20 +0100, Stefano Menegazzi ha
>>> scritto:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> i was wondering about incresing ubuntu boot speed...
>>>> right now it takes much time to get ready, is there any
>>>> trick to make it faster?
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>>> What do you mean with much time? 30 secs or 5 mins?
>>>
>>> On my C2D 2.0Ghz with 1GB ram, it takes about 20 secs (about 1 minute
>>> and more for Vista)
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>> I'm also interested in some speed improvements. My ubuntu laptop needs 
>> approximately 5 mins to boot. It is a Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz with 2GB ram, 
>> so it is very similar to your system. Even my much older desktop system 
>> (P4 3.2GHz) boots much faster. The first part of the boot sequence 
>> (where the splash screen with the progress bar is shown) is reasonable 
>> fast, but once X comes up, I have to wait several minutes before my 
>> gnome desktop appears. During that time, I only see a light brown 
>> background color.
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> Try pressing ctl-alt-f8 during the boot. This should open a text screen 
> which will show reports from each of the services as it starts up, and 
> you can see whether one or two of them are taking a long time to start.
>   
P.S. I think you may need to press ctrl-alt-f1 first (before 
ctrl-alt-f8) to make this work. I just tried this and it works if you do 
that.
> FYI, people are working on making the linux boot process faster - I 
> think one of the projects is called initng(?) The idea is rather than 
> starting the processes and services in series at the moment, to have an 
> init system that knows which services depend on others so that they can 
> be started partially in parallel. This would make booting much faster, 
> but hasn't been brought into ubuntu yet.
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