Faster Boot Time

tonyhealy · Post by **tonyhealy** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:24 pm

Any possibility of incorporating initng into Mint?
This appeared in distrowatch today:-
Over the last year or so we have seen much effort among Linux distribution to replace the ancient init system of booting Linux/UNIX with a more modern, faster implementation of the boot process. One way of increasing the boot speed of Debian GNU/Linux (and other distributions) is by replacing its SysVinit system with initng: "The old init system loads services one after the other; initng makes booting faster by loading services in a parallel fashion. There is no reason that process X can't use the CPU while process Y is reading data from disk. Installing initng on Debian 'Lenny' was as simple as installing any other software package. Here are installation instructions for most distributions, installing initng won't mess up the old init systems and you can easily go back when initng doesn't suit you or if it doesn't work. The speed increase I got from booting wasn't that awesome but it was nice. The old init system booted my workstation to the KDM login manager in 23.9 seconds. Booting using initng took 13.2 seconds, so it's nice but nothing jaw-dropping.

carlos · Post by **carlos** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:37 pm

Can you post a simple how to in this thread? Share with the forum

exploder · Post by **exploder** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:47 pm

I also read the article on Distrowatch. If you should find a "How To". please post a link.

sonicbhoc · Post by **sonicbhoc** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:52 pm

I found einit more painful to set up, but much faster. You should take a look at that too, although it was designed with Gentoo users in mind.