Re: HowTo: Speed up ubuntu boot process - the way you can feel it.
Originally Posted by
zasf
I disabled hotplug and then sound and network wouldn't work any more. I normally deal with ifup/down, etc by myself, since the network GUI doesn't work (that is something i go proud since I'm a win user). Other than looking at /etc/network/interfaces and commenting hotplug out, is there a way to understand what fails with hotplug at startup?? It doesn't actually fails.. it takes a long time but no "fail" nor "ok" shows.
Thanks you for the nice howto
hotplug and hotplug-network are hotplug subsystems that used for enabling plug&play devices, such as pcmcia card, usb, 1394, sound card, etc. Its a pretty sophisticated system to explain, but in a short, hotplug will try to detect low level devices by using d-bus and udev message bus and load the necessary modules by scaning various module files. The udev will actually have the same type func as hotplug in the near future I think and that's why the hotplug will be replaced by udev... With these type of subsystems enabled, Linux is truly a plug&play OS. But, things always have two sides, the side effect of hotplug is known to be the slow loading during boot time. The way that I can think of to learn this subsystem is to look at the hotplug scripts.
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