WIth athlon 1,2GHz, it takes about 4 seconds for me, either on 9.0 or 9.1b1
If devfs is unmounted, I get instant login. Buchan Milne wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:Two different boxes, both 550 Mhz. Last timed login: 17 seconds. Might be a devfs problem. During boot: Running DevFs daemon displayed on the screen for 2 minutes, 19 seconds. 28 seconds later, tty1 went blank as X started and changed to tty7. IOW, the devfs startup message is gone considerably before X ever starts. OS/2 Warp 4.52 boots in 79 seconds. W2K boots in 123 seconds. 9.0 takes 205 seconds to X login manager, 220 seconds to tty1 login prompt, 270 seconds until KDE is done loading, not counting time spent typing in a password. Total 9.0 boot time, 4.5 minutes, more than half of which is devfs init.Which is why devfs shouldn't be used for diskless terminals (ie why LTSP is much faster than Mandrake's terminal server). LTSP running on a p90/16MB ram box off a Mandrake 8.1 server booted to a kdm login in 45 seconfs (ie faster than any of of the other OSs on much faster hardware). It would be nice if devfs startup could be made faster. Maybe on some machines devfs is a bad idea ... Buchan
