Comments on: Optimizing a boot time, aka 2 second boot (part 2) https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/ Blogs and Ramblings of the openSUSE Members Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Sergiu https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/#comment-8352 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:50:34 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8892#comment-8352 I’m trying for a while to cut the boot time. What I think it needs to be done is to start the minimal services that needs to get to the login (like you did). The rest of the services like networking and so on can be started in background after with a low (maybe distinct) priority and maybe only if they are needed… And not work with a ‘cut down system’.

]]> By: Thomas Langkamp https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/#comment-8219 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:48:43 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8892#comment-8219 I just found that the 3 different available syslog services (one can easily install via yast) make a huge difference of up to 4 seconds. The best is syslog-ng:

syslogd
5876ms nfsserver.service
2129ms syslog.service
2112ms systemd-logind.service
754ms md.service
504ms SuSEfirewall2_setup.service
142ms SuSEfirewall2_init.service 5,6

rsyslog
4826ms nfsserver.service
2144ms syslog.service
2129ms systemd-logind.service
726ms md.service
492ms SuSEfirewall2_setup.service
169ms SuSEfirewall2_init.service

syslog-ng
4915ms nfsserver.service
728ms md.service
494ms SuSEfirewall2_setup.service
167ms syslog.service
165ms SuSEfirewall2_init.service
165ms systemd-logind.service

syslog-ng (second restart)
5874ms nfsserver.service
737ms md.service
495ms SuSEfirewall2_setup.service
166ms SuSEfirewall2_init.service
156ms syslog.service
142ms systemd-logind.service

Now I have: 3641ms (kernel) + 10314ms (userspace) = 13956ms

]]> By: Thomas Langkamp https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/#comment-8218 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 11:30:01 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8892#comment-8218 very well done!
Could you also provide info on how to mask services from systemd?
thanks!

]]> By: Michal Vyskocil https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/#comment-7885 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:51:39 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8892#comment-7885 Hallo Jos, if you will be able to bug it, it will be great and do not forget to put the bnc numbers there.

]]> By: jospoortvliet https://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/07/31/optimizing-a-boot-time-aka-2-second-boot-part-2/#comment-7860 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:48:16 +0000 http://lizards.opensuse.org/?p=8892#comment-7860 way cool. This inspired me to go through my own laptop bootup list as well. A few notes:
– systemd-analyze doesn’t install on openSUSE 12.2 rc2, complains about dependencies
– making initrd smaller is really hard. I looked in it – darn, there’s some weird stuff in there. Yes, there are splashy and plymouth. But also libxml2 (1.4 mb) libgio (1,.3 mb), LibX11 (1.2 mb), libcairo (1 mb) and things like sqlite, libcups (!?!?!) and much more. why is that there?!?!? My kernel boot time is often 7 seconds – on a total of 10… 🙁
– I greatly dislike that removing some things I really don’t need (lvm2, mdadm, some crypt stuff) removes half my system – at least, most of YaST, including stuff like the bootloader configuration. That should really be cleaned up…
– I now have this beauty slowing down my boot: 6881ms laptop-mode.service — wtf?!? Seems the culprit there is re-mounting my filesystems with relatime (which I’ve already set to noatime anyway). I solved this in the laptop-mode config, disabling its control over my drives.

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