[dundee] ding

[Andrew Clayton]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:31, David R. Baird wrote:
> Redhat 7.2, because that's the distro on my production server. 
> Faster booting would be nice, yes! I usually reboot with 
> shutdown -r -f now

Hmm.. you should probably leave out the -f (skip fsck on boot if you
value your data) most of the time it should have little or no effect.


> is there any other way of speeding up?
> 


The simplest way, is to stop any unescesary services starting up, you
may have done this already. Prime targets are kudzu if you have pretty
static hardware, stop it, it should shave a few seconds off boot time. 

To quickly see what is being started, run /sbin/chkconfig --list

To disable kudzu for example you would run (as root)

chkconfig --level 2345 kudzu off


What things you need/want running largely depends on what your machine
is doing (obvious right...)

Other things would be sendmail (unless you receive smtp mail) portmap,
xinetd can take few seconds to kick in.

Use a custom kernel... etc

In fact you could probably go quite a bit further and parrelize a lot of
the init script stuff.

Disable quota checking (unless you use it...)



That should do you for starters.



--
Andrew