Make Your Linux Boot Faster

Make Your Linux Boot Faster

Steps that can make your Linux system boot faster.

Step 1 :
Decide on the unnecessary services and stop them. Try to stop them using the following commands :

chkconfig ip6tables off
chkconfig setroubleshoot off
chkconfig vmware off
chkconfig bluetooth off
chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig yum-updatesd off

Step 2 :
If the loop-back device is not needed, stop it to save 1 second . Add
ONBOOT=no in its ifcfg file.

Step 3 :
* Kill all splash screens,
* Grub splash (the line that has ‘splash image’ should be commented in grub.conf),
* Boot splash (edit/ etc/ sysconfig/ init and say No color there) and
* KDE splash (goto the control center and stop it ).

Normally kernel has lots of unnecessary modules that get loaded when the machine starts. Even if you use only the Ethernet, but still the kernel loads the wireless, Blue tooth and router related modules. Disable them or recompile the kernel.

This should save you more than 30 seconds each time u boot your machine. You can tweak your system as per your requirements & save some boot time.

Note: This is configured for PC which has 512 RAM , an Intel dual core processor with RHEL5.1. but holds good for all most all configurations. – Admin (CosmoCyber)

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Firefox Tweaks [Updated]

Firefox Tweaks

Tweak Firefox to Improve the acquire lightning speed.
In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these settings are optimized for broadband connections. With as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining.

Double Click on the following settings and put in the numbers below – for the true/false booleans – they’ll change when you double click.

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

At last Right-click somewhere on the screen & add a NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband – it shouldn’t have to wait.

Note: Connot be assured lightning experience but atleast, maximum avilable browsing speed. – Admin

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