Re: Speeding up boot time
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> > Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will
> > I have to sort through everything manually?
>
> It's not as much as you think.
>
> > And if I remove networking, how do I go about using modprobe to start
> > up my Ethernet in case I ever want to use it/need it at another time
> > (i.e. When there is a new Debian kernel release I have to reinstall my
> > wireless before I can do anything)?
>
> Run "ls -1 /etc/init.d" and post it here. That will tell us what
> you can deinstall.
>
pobega@ackbar:~$ ls -l /etc/init.d
total 484
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3071 2006-12-06 04:47 915resolution
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1850 2006-01-14 06:12 acpid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 940 2006-10-22 13:16 acpi-support
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5884 2006-12-29 07:04 alsa
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8710 2007-01-12 08:36 alsa-utils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1037 2006-09-24 08:53 anacron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4351 2007-02-05 04:33 apache2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1667 2007-02-25 05:33 apmd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 969 2006-01-03 02:15 atd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3925 2005-11-11 14:24 aumix
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4318 2007-01-07 13:29 avahi-daemon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1109 2005-10-27 08:15 binfmt-support
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2803 2006-10-18 09:25 bittorrent
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5089 2006-09-20 07:36 bootclean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2146 2006-09-12 17:42 bootlogd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1915 2006-09-20 07:29 bootmisc.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2930 2006-09-14 04:21 checkfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9548 2006-09-20 06:16 checkroot.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5816 2007-03-12 19:31 clamav-freshclam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6110 2006-09-05 12:15 console-screen.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1671 2006-10-04 14:01 cpufrequtils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1761 2006-10-12 14:55 cron
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1977 2006-12-28 10:07 cupsys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2760 2006-12-12 18:21 dbus
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1965 2006-04-15 06:35 ddclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5984 2006-10-23 10:52 discover
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1039 2006-10-03 14:31 fam
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7097 2006-11-18 12:49 fetchmail
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1118 2006-12-12 15:37 gdomap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5823 2006-11-04 19:19 glibc.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1360 2007-01-13 13:52 halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9168 2006-10-25 11:25 hdparm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2217 2006-10-09 11:22 hibernate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1287 2006-09-12 16:46 hostname.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2245 2006-04-29 15:09 hotkey-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4291 2006-10-26 11:39 hplip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3886 2007-01-17 14:02 hwclock.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2596 2006-11-14 08:26 hyperestraier
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2518 2006-09-15 14:03 ifupdown
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1046 2006-09-15 14:03 ifupdown-clean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 658 2002-08-17 20:10 initrd-tools.sh
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1087 2007-01-31 10:33 ipw3945d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3484 2006-11-03 01:39 keymap.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 944 2006-09-12 17:42 killprocs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1375 2006-05-25 05:38 klogd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 417 2006-08-08 18:38 libdevmapper1.02
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 421 2006-09-28 20:06 lm-sensors
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1054 2006-09-06 17:43 makedev
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1793 2006-11-14 06:12 module-init-tools
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 737 2006-06-03 15:20 modutils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 617 2006-01-11 19:35 mountall-bootclean.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1718 2006-09-12 03:14 mountall.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2206 2006-10-03 14:26 mountdevsubfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2394 2006-09-25 04:42 mountkernfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 615 2006-01-11 19:35 mountnfs-bootclean.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2299 2006-11-26 09:47 mountnfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3797 2006-12-19 04:56 mplayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3668 2006-11-26 10:15 mtab.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6127 2007-01-27 14:05 mysql
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2547 2007-02-21 18:52 mysql-ndb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1931 2007-01-27 14:05 mysql-ndb-mgm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2010 2006-11-13 21:23 nethack-common
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2550 2007-01-06 10:36 networking
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6644 2006-11-06 20:59 nfs-common
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2324 2007-02-25 15:29 openbsd-inetd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2350 2006-11-27 09:03 pcmciautils
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1525 2006-12-22 03:15 portmap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5382 2006-11-09 10:37 powersaved
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 997 2006-09-12 21:42 procps.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8045 2006-11-27 17:23 rc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 798 2006-09-28 13:25 rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117 2005-12-02 12:44 rcS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1386 2006-09-13 02:10 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 655 2006-09-12 17:42 reboot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 994 2006-09-05 19:09 rmnologin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2006-11-20 10:06 rsync
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 695 2007-03-06 18:06 screen-cleanup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1376 2006-11-26 13:38 sendsigs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 585 2006-01-17 05:42 single
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4187 2006-09-12 17:32 skeleton
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 520 2006-09-08 02:29 stop-bootlogd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 730 2006-10-02 13:44 stop-bootlogd-single
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541 2006-04-06 15:58 sudo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1024 2006-11-05 22:11 svgalib-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037 2006-05-25 05:38 sysklogd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1279 2006-02-04 17:10 tpconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8178 2006-12-19 05:21 udev
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1252 2006-03-28 02:44 udev-mtab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3175 2006-11-25 04:23 umountfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2128 2006-11-26 13:38 umountnfs.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1122 2006-09-22 11:47 umountroot
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1815 2006-09-12 17:42 urandom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 896 2006-10-22 13:16 vbesave
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3112 2006-11-14 20:20 wdm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 172 2007-01-30 13:26 wireless
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1626 2006-10-04 20:03 wpa-ifupdown
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1805 2006-05-16 22:36 x11-common
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4234 2006-05-08 00:33 xfs
A few of these I don't even know if I need. For example, Xfs. I don't
share fonts over a network but I don't want to break anything, so I'm
not sure. Any help from someone with more experience would be very
appreciated.
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