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I know Arch is already fast, but I was wondering if there was some way to speed up Arch boot time (or Xfce start time-- anything) even more without giving up my Xfce DE or anything of that sort. Like a simple package to install that preloads or something that streamlines-- whatever. I heard FreeBSD can boot from 3-10 seconds so I thought "Wow! What if my Arch installation could do that?"
Is there any miracle solution like this out there?
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you can disable autodetect and tell rc.conf which modules to boot, background your daemons, recompile a custom kernel, strip out rc.sysinit to just what you need.
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Ok what are the consequences of doing such things?
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with my daemons running in the backgroun, I got 6 seconds, I don't find any side effect because them all load by the time I log in.
setting kernel to quiet gave me another second.
Last edited by hack.augusto (2008-12-27 23:22:44)
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6 seconds!? How exactly do I background my daemons and set my kernel to quiet?
I don't want to turn autodetect off because I'm no expert at my system and don't want to miss a module and screw something up badly. Otherwise, I can do easier stuff (that just requires editing a text file like /etc/rc.conf or something without much worry or risk about messing anything up).
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Daemons
See the bottom part about putting daemons into background.
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to put the kernel to quiet you need change the /boot/grub/menu.lst, add quiet to the kernel line
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alright and what exactly will that do? Anything detrimental that I need to worry about?
And putting an @ before a DAEMON in rc.conf will background it, right?
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