Re: [linuxiran] Linux Start-up Time?

[Zoup]

On Sunday 20 July 2003 14:46, Hooman Baradaran wrote:
> Hello,
> For some reason my Mandrake Linux loads MUCH slower than Windoz XP. I also
> have Knoppix and it takes less time to load than Mandrake even though it is
> on a CD but still it is much slower than XP.
> I haven't times Knoppix but Mandrake took 1 minute to load (which I could
> reduce to 40 seconds but stopping unwanted services from loading) and KDE
> takes another 1 minute to load. I don't have a clue how to make KDE faster.
> Windoz XP takes 30 seconds to load the login screen and another 10-20
> seconds to completely start.
>
> Now the bigger problem is that I can't find any answers on the internet
> because Linux is known to be faster. I found only one discussion on this
> but it didn't help.
>
> If someone can help me or at least tell me if this is normal I'd really
> appreciate it.
>
> Hooman


What do you mean by "load" , Boot ? 
check rc script's in /etc/rc.d and remove which you dont need , also check 
inetd configuration file , are you compile new kernel ? did you enable some 
DebugFS or ExtraCheck ? 
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