Increase boot times: have hotplug run in background?

r_jensen11 · 09-17-2004, 03:00 PM

Howdy, just wondering if it would be safe for me to have hotplug run in the background when I'm booting up, so that the system isn't hung up on that one process as I'm booting up (currently it takes up over 20 seconds, and my boot speed time is somewhere around 80 seconds.) So I was just wondering if you guys thought it would be a safe move to just put an & after the command to initiate hotplug when the system boots or not (hopefully this will mean I'll get a boot time that's a little faster)

gbonvehi · 09-17-2004, 03:04 PM

Nope it's not a good idea because maybe (99% sure) you then run a service that actually needs what's being detected by hotplug.

An alternative idea (which is fast) is to disable hotplug and modprobe all the modules you need manually or make a big kernel with all you need built-in.

r_jensen11 · 09-17-2004, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by gbonvehi
Nope it's not a good idea because maybe (99% sure) you then run a service that actually needs what's being detected by hotplug.

An alternative idea (which is fast) is to disable hotplug and modprobe all the modules you need manually or make a big kernel with all you need built-in.

How about modprobe the modules that I need usually (right now I have usb interface, alsa, and graphics drivers loaded) and then have Hotplug load afterward? Does hotplug even load for rl1?

Sadrul · 09-18-2004, 12:23 AM

you can try disabling hotplug at startup (chmod -x). if it doesn't cause any prob at startup (it didn't for me), then i think it'll be safe to run it in background during startup.

-- Adil

slackie1000 · 09-18-2004, 07:33 AM

hi there,

i advice this thread.
And yes, i think you can disable hotplug and bring the hw up with modprobe.

regards

slackie1000