what to strip out of kernel?

whammoed · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

I have a machine whos only purpose is to run some arcade games on advmame with advmenu using svgalib. The only peripherals are sata hard drive, ide dvdrom, and usb keyboards and mice, and on occasion a usb hard drive. I am wondering if there are any defaults that are in the kernel that I could take out to speed the boot process? I have to recompile to include the event interface so I thought there might be some stuff I didn't need.

asiobob · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:33 am Post subject:

The major slow down in the boot process is not the kernel loading, its the init scripts.

So I suggest only starting services you need, just look at "rc-status" and explore there. Mounting your hard drives may take time, do you have several partitions to mount at boot? If so there's a easy mod that may speed things up at the mount stage

whammoed · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 66

ok, thanks, i'll check it out