HowTo: Speed up ubuntu boot process - the way you can feel it.

[dothedorky]

*bumped*

still have a few programs i dont know if i need (or even what they are specifically for)

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[kaczmarek]

Hi,

I was just wondering, why do some services need to be turned on multiple runlevels, eg. 2,3,4 and 5? What does this mean? Does that mean that these are re-run on each new runlevel? If that's true, why? A bit confused...

Thanks!

[dannyboy79]

each run level is different so you would want the service to be available in each run level wouldn't you? here is an explaination ot run levels. http://www.networkclue.com/os/Linux/run-levels.aspx

[Bill_Gates]

Thanks for this guide.

[shawnrgr]

Is this tip safe for Feisty?

[dannyboy79]

it's safe for any linux version! it merely stops processes that you don't want to start at bootup and don't need.

[housekid]

Thank you, thank you.
I have learned a lot, your the best!

[linfidel]

Nice article, and lots of nice links. This is one of the first things I want to learn about in linux - how to control the startup, and what happens when, step by step.

Thanks to all the contributors.

[macron1]

wow thanks man. this dramatically increased my bootup speed on a compaq presario v6000. just switched the ppp, bluetooth and the "readahead" (cant remember exact name) ones off. worked a treat.

[st33med]

A program to disable: brltty.

Basically, it is for braille output devices in tty. If you're not blind, then disable this.