Shawn Walker wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Shawn Walker wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I took an OpenSolaris USB flash key I was given (that had the initial >>> 2008.05 release on it) and overwrote it with the build 110 usb image >>> using usbcopy. >>> >>> I noticed that booting the build 110 image is significantly slower. >>> It takes 2m 09s after selecting the boot option from the GRUB menu >>> before I see the SunOS banner, and then 36s before I get a language >>> prompt. Once I go through both language/input prompts, it takes >>> another 1m 45s before the desktop comes up. >>> >>> This is is on an Intel E8400 system with 8GB of memory and an nVidia >>> GeForce GTX 280 PCI-X. >> As a point of comparison, booting from a Live CD with build 110 on the >> same system took: >> >> 28s after selecting the boot option from GRUB menu to see SunOS banner >> 12s before I got a language prompt >> 3m before the desktop fully loaded > > As a point of comparison, booting from a Live CD with the 2008.11 > (non-global) USB image on the same system took: > > 1m 57s after selecting the boot option from GRUB menu to see SunOS banner > 10s before I got a language prompt > 30s before the desktop fully loaded > > So, the initial grub loading process is pretty slow, but the rest of it > is a lot faster than a USB image of build 110. >
Interesting. The changes for 6440 will greatly reduce the size of the initial ramdisk load so you should see significant improvement, but I'm still puzzled why it got so much worse. One potential culprit is the update to grub-0.97, which came in build 103. Might be worth it to build up some hacked USB images with the old 0.95 stage 2 and see if that makes the difference. Dave
