Hi all, it's just a curiosity. Since the use of an initramfs doubles the kernel boot time I decided to play a little compiling as built-in the modules required to mount root (starting from a localmodconfig). Everything ok, the system starts and the kernel boot time is good Startup finished in 1.749s (firmware) + 375ms (loader) + 1.402s (kernel) + 716ms (userspace) = 4.244s (from systemd-analyze). My next idea was: "Well, why not to make all modules as built-in? So I avoid reading from disk at every module load.. and all of them are loaded anyway", but the results was opposite to my expectations, kernel boot time increased from 1.4 to 3 seconds. So my question is, how this can be explained? My theory is that by compiling all the modules as built-in, the kernel calls all the module __init functions in a sequential manner, (using a single core?) and lets the userspace start only when everything is done. But I'm not sure at all. I have a samsung ativ book 9 liite: 1GHz 4core, ssd Regards, Michele