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CarterCox

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2018-02-24

Posts: 116

Is minimal initramfs useless?

Hello guys! I have been messing around with this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … equirement and this are the results I got:

• Default+LZ4: Startup finished in 3.074s (kernel) + 14.488s (userspace) = 17.563s
  graphical.target reached after 14.488s in userspace

• Default+LZO: Startup finished in 3.060s (kernel) + 14.691s (userspace) = 17.752s
  graphical.target reached after 14.664s in userspace

• Minimal+LZ4: Startup finished in 2.478s (kernel) + 16.543s (userspace) = 19.022s
  graphical.target reached after 16.505s in userspace

• Minimal+LZO: Startup finished in 2.493s (kernel) + 15.765s (userspace) = 18.258s
  graphical.target reached after 15.688s in userspace

So it seems it takes longet to reach userspace. Why is this happening? Here are my files (without comments):

Default:

MODULES=()
BINARIES=()
FILES=()
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck shutdown)
COMPRESSION="lz4" #this one can be lzop as well

Minimal:

MODULES=(ahci sd_mod ext4)
BINARIES=(fsck fsck.ext4)
FILES=()
HOOKS=(base shutdown)
COMPRESSION="lz4" #can be lzop as well

Should I add more modules maybe?

Last edited by CarterCox (2018-04-11 21:44:04)

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