Slow startup? Bootchart reveals all

[Aitch]

Ever wondered what takes your Linux box so long to boot up? You can see for certain with the Bootchart package. Bootchart logs the entire startup process and produces a clean, graphical representation of its results suitable for everything from troubleshooting to good old-fashioned bragging rights.

It's best not to start messing with the startup process unless you know what you are doing, but let's be real: fouling up your Linux box then figuring out how to fix it again is a longstanding tradition. And admit it -- weren't you just a little bit jealous when Arjan van de Ven and Auke Kok demonstrated a tweaked Asus Eee PC booting to a working desktop in less than five seconds? Installing Bootchart and studying your own system's startup is the first step toward such optimization and the bragging rights that follow

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151496

Anyone fancy making a pet/SFS?

Feel like a tweak?....useful info

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux ... -boot.html

Aitch

[Aitch]

Aitch,

Is it possible to run bootchart package on puppy?
Is it available for wary500?

I am interested to know the boot process on general linux distros and specially for puppy. Which documents are good start?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

Hi
No-one responded for my request for a .pet, however there's a deb pkg, and you could use deb2pet on it

http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/bootchart/download
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39756

I have not used it, but apparently it gives a long file o/p to analyse

This page shows its use in /boot/grub/menu.lst

http://www.bootchart.org/docs.html

else google gives plenty of results

Aitch

[Karl Godt]

Another bb-feature to try is `bootchartd start` but it presents three large log files with somehow unuseable data :

about busybox bootchartd

It is about busybox bootchartd which is not enabled in the default /bin/busybox of Puppy.

Cheers

[seneka77]

I've tried bootchart on Slacko 64 6.3 and tahrpup 6.5 with no results.
Even I did a ram-disk with the bootchartd process as suggested in several pages and other combinations, no works at all by the moment.
A pity, so is nice app, It works good for me in slackware or debian distros.
Glad to know how-to run it if anyone get it works.
Greetings!