Startup Speed

[Dagda]

How do I make my system start up faster. I'm running RH 7.1 and the only things I need to start are:

network
eth0
sound card
sshd
ftpd
cajun

I already took everything I didn't need out of my xinetd & rc.d I also made the file systems read only.

Is there any thing else I can do to speed it up?

Thanks

[vasah20]

This is speaking from Mandrake 8.0 experience, but it should apply.

Try recompiling your kernel to only include the options that you need. If I remember right, the distros usually compile everything into the kernel (usually as modules), since they need to try to cover all the possible computers that will try and install them.

Take out what you don't need, and it should speed up your start up time (you probably don't need SMP support, for example).

I could be wrong, but I know when I recompilied my kernel and only used the stuff I needed my system sped up a bit.

HTH
leo

[Dagda]

If they are compiled as modules can't I just remove them from /etc/modules.conf?