3 simple steps to make booting/shutdown faster...

[Bill Nottingham]

Arjan van de Ven (arjan at infradead.org) said: 
> So I got a tad annoyed by why the initscript processing is (in my impatient perception) slow;
> most initscripts (in timing) only take like 0.1 second themselves after all.
> Turns out.. the rest of the initscript system had quite a bit of overhead.
> (More so on F7 than on F8, but still).
> 
> Now... I made a bunch of tweaks to the 3 key files and this made things quite
> a bit faster; F8 is 50% slower than the new situation 
> (for a specific test, new code takes 0.275 seconds, F8 code takes 0.41 seconds).

Do you have some timings of these on a system level? I'm only seeing at
best a second improvement.

Bill