Speeding up the boot process

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> the same sequence number, I made the change to
>>>
>>> CONCURRENCY=shell
>>>
>>
>> Is your laptop a dual core machine?  I saw that note somewhere, but
>> was under the impression that it takes a multicore/processor machine
>> to get any advantage out of it, thus my Atom processor wouldn't make
>> it worthwhile for me....
>>
>
> The laptop is indeed dual-core.
>
> However, I would expect that it'll work in the same way .... Suck it
> and see - if the boot times don't improve or you see any other issues,
> set the level of concurrency back to "none" and you're back to where you
> started.

Actually, now that I look I see that option is mentioned on the Acer
Aspire One Ubuntu community page too.

I turned it on, and didn't notice a difference :-)
If I get ambitious I'll try a stopwatch or something, but it certainly
wasn't a huge improvement or anything.

Brian