Performance is the King!

Speed up the slow systemd

• Do simple benchmark systemd-analyze [time|blame|critical-chain]
• Enable .socket and disable .service (eg. sshd)
• Set Storage=volatile in /etc/systemd/journald.conf

Kernel: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Minimal_initramfs

• For a better boost in boot time, remove the initramfs if no luks/lvm/raid is used and compile linux kernel to include the modules needed in boot

• Or instead, minimal initramfs (mkinitcpio here)

  MODULES="ahci sd_mod btrfs" HOOKS="base"

Speeding up DNS

• One-liner to find fastest DNS server and add to resolv.conf (commandlinefu):

  curl -s http://public-dns.info/nameservers.txt | xargs -i timeout 1 ping -c1 -w 1 {} | sed -n "/:.time/ s/.from ([^:]).time=([^ ])./\2\t\1/p" | sort -n | head -n1