IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Bill Nottingham]

Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs at math.uh.edu) said: 
> Is there a simple way to find what is causing the disk IO?  Each
> script starts /bin/sh and then sources /etc/init.d/functions.  Is
> there any way to save that IO?

It should all be cached after the first shell, so that doesn't really
help *that* much.

I remember taking out something on the order of 40 invocations of
grep (or some other random subprocess) out of the boot - it saved
less than one second. :/

Bill