boot time

D. Hageman dhageman at dracken.com
Wed Nov 14 20:20:46 CST 2001


Uhm.  I wouldn't worry about it.  The reason why it appears it uses so 
much memmory is because the design philosophy behind the kernel.  I could 
explain more, but it can get over technical real quick and would probably 
prove more confusing then helpful.

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, dlegion wrote:

> I am not confident enough to mess with my kernal, let alone no what to mess 
> with once I started but I did want to learn how I could speed up the time it 
> takes to load linux.  I want a super fast boot up.  I want to know what 
> programs I can do without safely at boot up and just start them as I need 
> them, because I probably won't always make use of everthing.
> Right from the start Mandrake 8.1 is using over 100MB of physical memory.
> My system doesnt run slow but I still want to trim it up, If there are any 
> recourses specific to this I would apreciate a point in the right direciton.
> 
> Thank You.
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