Interesting article on boot ordering

[Chip Turner]

Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> writes:

> Kevin Worthington (kworthington at linuxmail.org) said: 
> > I remember that this was discussed on this list a while back. Specifically Serel, located at fastboot.org
> > Many of the Red Hat folks said it could be done, but was not really needed IIRC.
> 
> It's not that it's not really needed, it's that when it was tried it
> didn't really help that much.
> 
> For example, we just in the past day or two got rid of 41 shell invocations
> on boot just by changing how grep was built. Always look for the big wins
> first. :)

Any numbers on how much faster it (and any other optimizations) have
made booting?  Any other approaches being tried to speed up booting?

Chip

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Chip Turner                   cturner at redhat.com
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