7

Visually Seeing Your Boot Speed With Bootchart Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

UbuntuHave you ever wanted to know what your computer did while it booted? Are you new to linux, and want to understand what actually went wrong? Are you frustrated with the speed of your boot? Well look no further. There is an awesome software called bootchart which is available via repositories for most major Linux Distributions. This software will visually chart out, what is taking the resources while booting, gives you a nice bench mark of how long it took to boot, and if you’re having slow boots, it’ll help you track down where your problem process is. buick . The installation on the newly released Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 is quite simple. You can install using:

sudo apt-get install bootchart
The above will also install the required package: pybootchartgui. Now all you have to do is reboot your machine. This can be done via the terminal with:
sudo init 6
Note: The above switches you to runlvl 6, which indicates a restart. Once your machine has booted back up, all you have to do is check out the .png file that was saved for you in /var/log/bootchart. You can open the said picture, and be greeted with a great graph of your boot-up process.

Click for Full Size


1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
Loading ... Loading ...

About the Author

I am ben kevan.. Well yeah. .that's about it.

Comments (7)

Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed

  1. [...] Visually Seeing Your Boot Speed With Bootchart Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx [...]

  2. dogafin says:

    my boot up takes about a minute 24 seconds……. is there any way i can do to speed this up?

  3. auto repair says:

    Your article is clearly very well-researched and informative. I think your content is useful and valuable information presented in a very unique way. On a scale from 1 to 10 it’s a 10.

  4. I’m too busy to do much online reading, but when my sister told me about your article, I read it. This is informative content with creative ideas and thoughtful commentary.

  5. Top Lista says:

    Hello my friend! I wish to say that this article is awesome, nice written and come with almost all important infos. I would like to look extra posts like this .

  6. I am very glad this content was available. It’s very thought provoking, informative and easy to read and understand. I know this information will be very helpful in the future. http://www.samsung1080phdtv.net/

  7. Suv says:

    Definitely consider that that you said. Your favorite justification appeared to be at the net the easiest factor to understand of. I say to you, I certainly get irked while other people consider worries that they plainly do not understand about. You controlled to hit the nail upon the top and also defined out the whole thing with no need side-effects , other people can take a signal. Will probably be back to get more. Thank you

Leave a Reply




If you want a picture to show with your comment, go get a Gravatar.