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dynamic tick patch and slow boot

Posted Sep 8, 2005 23:35 UTC (Thu) by barrygould (guest, #4774)
In reply to: dynamic tick patch and slow boot by roelofs
Parent article: The state of the dynamic tick patch

I don't think this is about KERNEL boot timing, but here's some recent articles about Fedora boot times:

Also, I believe the articles on LWN in the past were not specifically about kernel boot times either, IIRC.

Barry

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dynamic tick patch and slow boot

Posted Sep 9, 2005 3:56 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

Also, I believe the articles on LWN in the past were not specifically about kernel boot times either, IIRC.

Now that you mention it, I believe you're correct. Pity...

Ah, yes, here's the front-page article I was remembering: Fedora: an example of community involvement, which led to the Bootchart project. And a year earlier, there was this article: Boot Linux faster (IBM developerWorks). Nothing obvious for the kernel itself, though I'm almost certain the CELF folks did a fair bit of work on that.

Greg