[Novalug] speed - 30 to 15 (was file sys q)

Daniel Chen seven.steps@gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 10:15:45 EDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good point about what's bult as modules and what's not, but fail on the
> "lacked drivers for some of the hardware" thing since the two pieces of
> hardware that were unsupported in Hardy are still unsupported.  And I havne't
> gotten around to compiling my webcam drivers yet. Thanks for the reminder.


"lacked drivers" is poor phrasing. "lacked smarter init functions for
your existing drivers" is better.

> So it's a 7 second improvement over Hardy with a combination of kernel
> optimisations and ext4.  Still, got it down into a timeframe where booting is
> nearly as fast as resuming from suspend.


It's not just kernel, since udev and module-init-tools also count.



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