On 4 March 2011 17:10, David Demelier <demelier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop > and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than > FreeBSD. > > I don't talk about the init/rc script but only kernel initialisation. For > linux kernel it's around 5-6 seconds vs 15-18 seconds for FreeBSD. > > Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? >
USB probe times for FreeBSD are extremely long. I'm not sure of Linux parallelizes this or just waits until rc time. Wireless seems to be a similar issue here. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
