Comments on: Avoiding autoloading http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Archlinux http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-42618 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:59:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-42618 It has almost no effect now with the recent module loading technique, which I don’t know more about, but showed up with my results that the booting time was the same with “MOD_AUTOLOAD=yes” *and* with “MOD_AUTOLOAD=no” (where I even stripped down my unneeded modules).

So my vanilla kernel-arch shows up 10 secs in bootchart although my boot is a little slower than that =). I used a lot of stuff to get this “10 sec boot” but the one that affected the most was the “Arch quick-init” implementation.

]]> By: The same guy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-40893 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:04:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-40893 Yeah, my arch box boots in 12 secs but I need to strip down my list of modules so that I can build my stock kernel.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-37795 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:38:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-37795 Well, considering you can do the same thing now with hwdetect --modules >> /etc/rc.conf, it certainly doesn’t take several days to do this.

And come on, it is nearly 2009 and even the cheapest PCs are more expensive than the ones I own now, and mine run plenty fast. ;)

]]> By: Andrei http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-37794 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:24:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-37794 Thanks. But no thanks.

My Arch boots in 15 seconds.

Should I waste several days of my life to gain 3-5 seconds? I do not think so.

Come on, it is nearly 2008 and even the cheapest PCs are screamingly fast.

]]> By: vsk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-36410 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:22:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-36410 * Sorry for posting twice.. Couldn’t edit the first one!

When you lsmod, are the modules with a Used By value of 0 safe to remove from the MODULES list? I would assume so…

Thanks!

]]> By: vsk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-36409 Fri, 30 May 2008 23:16:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-36409 This is very interesting!
I just ran hwdetect –modules, and here is the output;

MODULES=(dock cdrom agpgart intel-agp intel-rng hid usbhid i2c-algo-bit i2c-i801 i2c-i810 i2c-core evdev ff-memless pcspkr psmouse serio_raw pci_hotplug shpchp ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore pata_acpi ata_generic scsi_mod ata_piix 8139cp 8139too mii usb-storage usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd sd_mod sr_mod)

How can I be sure that it is safe to turn off autoload with the modules in this order?

* I’m scared to reboot!

– Arch User

]]> By: NerdyShinobi http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-963 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:36:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/avoiding-autoloading/#comment-963 Thanks for explaining this little bit here. I can strip WinXP to the bone with Nlite and disable services until the cows come home, but in Linux, I’m literally a babe in the woods. I have a feeling that the wife’s laptop is geting the royal Arch treatment soon. Or at least a true stripped Ubuntu following your Edgy Speed guide.

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