Hi,
I’ve googled around and applied tweaks that I found on how to reduce openSUSE’s boot time. However, it is still slow and way slower than other distros like Fedora and Ubuntu. Anyone have any ideas? I just wanna know what ppl in the community think, even if they don’t post stuff on their blogs. I’m sure this will help a lot of ppl and not just me. Thx.
Mine boots in ~30 secs. Disable any services you don’t use/need
Is there any focus on shrinking bootup time, as Ubuntu (9.04) and Fedora (11) have focused on, in openSUSE 11.2?
I don’t think it’s a matter of just turning off services as I haven’t see any real difference when I do cut down on services.
My Ubuntu 9.04 boots in < 30 seconds (spoiling), while openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 on the same machine takes quite a bit longer without a lot of added stuff.
Could it be a Gnome vs KDE “thing”? Possible, as both Fedora and Ubuntu are more Gnome distributions (plus that’s what I’ve gotten my quicker bootup time with).
there’s a request https://features.opensuse.org/306459
I don’t think kde or gnome have any impact on real kernel boot time. There’s something more going on in Ubuntu and Fedora
dragonbite adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 01 Jun 2009 19:36 to write:
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> Is there any focus on shrinking bootup time, as Ubuntu (9.04) and Fedora
> (11) have focused on, in openSUSE 11.2?
>
> I don’t think it’s a matter of just turning off services as I haven’t
> see any real difference when I do cut down on services.
>
> My Ubuntu 9.04 boots in < 30 seconds (spoiling), while openSUSE 11.2
> Milestone 2 on the same machine takes quite a bit longer without a lot
> of added stuff.
>
> Could it be a Gnome vs KDE “thing”? Possible, as both Fedora and Ubuntu
> are more Gnome distributions (plus that’s what I’ve gotten my quicker
> bootup time with).
>
>
There are some things that are being developed that can speed up boot time I
think, they are in “extra” repos.
I think the are for the newer releases, they include newer preload stuff and
trimming of unneeded modules, initrd et al.
I have the repo enabled but have not installed anything yet on this machine
as it is not rebooted unless it has a kernel update and is on 24/7 so I
don`t mind if it takes an extra 10-15 secs on a reboot once in a blue moon.
I might test them on my sandbox when I get time though.
Where the repos are I will leave as an exercise as I do not want to be held
responsible for b0rking any-ones machine if the apps are not for there arch
or system.
If I b0rk mine then at least I can only blame myself.
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Mark
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
baskitcaise adjusted his/her AFDB on Monday 01 Jun 2009 20:42 to write:
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> If I b0rk mine then at least I can only blame myself.
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Which I promptly went and did and completely handbagged my system.
So unless you are prepared to spend 3 hours gently nursing yous back to
health from the command line I suggest you stick with a normal boot
–
Mark
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
I have a couple of SuSE 11.1 installs on my AMD64 box. One boots fine (in about 30 seconds), the other can’t make it to KDE. I am investigating the usual suspects via log files. But I ran across a nice graphical boot timing diagram maker, bootchart. It makes a nice GANTT chart of process birth/death during the bootup interval. I find it a great teaching tool.
HTH
Same here and the milestone 2 boots even faster
Same <30 sec here.
Or 3 sec from suspend to RAM
How often do your reboot anyway?
10:00:42 up 48 days, 10:48, 4 users, load average: 0.49, 0.46, 0.32
Boot time matters. Not. (Yes, this is one of my workstations)
Very Funnylol!
I think one of my problems is that my system has only 512 MB of RAM, but then that should be the same factor when I boot Ubuntu on it.