LordHatrus Posted March 28, 2004 Share Posted March 28, 2004 I have a linux I am using in an embedded environment, and it works nicely; however, I require that it starts up MUCH faster than it does... So far, I've stripped practically everything from the 2.6 kernel, and it still is not fast enough. Is the 2.4 kernel a faster booter? 2.2 ? And is their anything else I can do to make this startup faster? edit: btw, yes, I thought about just using a suspend feature, but, its not possible, as energy consumption is too high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 28, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 28, 2004 Here is an article from Sept. 2003 (so it would be on 2.4 kernel) which gets an embedded Linux boot time to under 200msec. Sounds plenty fast to me! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted March 28, 2004 Author Share Posted March 28, 2004 err.. what do you mean HERE is the article... did you forget to post the link... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted March 28, 2004 Veteran Share Posted March 28, 2004 err.. what do you mean HERE is the article... did you forget to post the link... :p :pinch: :pinch: :pinch: here :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaKeY Posted March 28, 2004 Share Posted March 28, 2004 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted March 29, 2004 Share Posted March 29, 2004 Even though I did not like Mandrake 10.0 too well, it did load somewhat faster than its predecessors and Mandrake 10 has Kernel 2.6.3. That loading took between a minute and a half to about two minutes, but that's because Mandrake loads up a lot of crud on startup. Slackware 9.1 loads fast enough for me (Kernel 2.4.22) in a little over one minute on the Sparrow system requirements indicated in my sig. As for loading on Kernel 2.6, I could not tell you because I don't have the time to test it at this present time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
after fallout Posted March 29, 2004 Share Posted March 29, 2004 my desktop (2.6.4 mm kernel) boots in under 30 seconds, no x though: that takes another minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 29, 2004 Share Posted March 29, 2004 make everything modules your kernel will boot hella fast ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletRobZ Posted March 29, 2004 Share Posted March 29, 2004 Another minute for X? Which distro are you using and what are your computer specs? It took only 15 - 25 seconds to load up KDE on my system and less if it was another window manager, even GNOME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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