On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Brock Pytlik<[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> I'm not sure I would call two and a half minutes on first boot all that >> fast. >> (That's on the sparc box I installed today, which has been slimmed down >> a bit - one of my key minimization priorities now is not to reduce the >> amount >> of software delivered but the number of manifests, as that's a limiting >> factor. >> An opteron box is quicker, as you would expect, but you're still looking >> at a >> minute which is appreciable. And there's several seconds every boot as >> well.) > > Is first boot really the use case you think we should be optimizing for? I'd > like to think that for both users and machines, it's a comparatively rare > event.
But a crucially important one. For users, it directly impacts on their initial experience of the OS - twiddling your thumbs while the OS takes seemingly forever to boot is very discouraging. For machines, think dynamic deployment of zones - adding several minutes to the time it takes for a newly deployed system to be available for use isn't very dynamic. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
