5 sec boot

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

The following articles on reducing linux boot times have recently  
been published:

http://blog.crozat.net/2008/09/improving-boot-time-on-general-linux.html

http://www.bootchart.org/

http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/how-powertop-latencytop-and-fi.html

There might be some useful ideas / tools mentioned.



On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Martin Dengler wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:24:25PM +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
>> If you somehow missed it, there is possible to boot Linux in 5  
>> seconds
>> on an EeePC.
>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=s7NxCM8ryF8
>>
>> Here is the paper:
>> http://www.fenrus.org/plumbers_fastboot.ppt
>>
>> Could somebody explain me whether these results are applicable to the
>> XO, and how far are we from it, please?
>
> I got TuxOnIce[1] patched[2] and as far as testing the hibernate
> step[3] before I gave up after TuxOnIce refused to save the image (it
> just rebooted[4] instead).
>
> It's a bit too much of a time sink for me to hope to get much more
> done on, though.  Hopefully someone else can pursue it or
> alternatives.
>
> Martin
>
> 1. http://www.tuxonice.net/HOWTO-7.html#ss7.5
> 2. http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/ 
> olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing
> 3. Step #6 in
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-August/018700.html
> 4.
>  [unload/unmount stuff]
>  echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/keep_image
>  echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/freezer_test
>  echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/suspend
>  [should just create memory image, but just rebooted right away]
>
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