Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Mar 4 11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:10:58PM +0100, David Demelier wrote: 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. a note: You probably meant as fast, rather than faster: 2x as fast

FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread David Demelier
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

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I guess part of it must have something to do with how the devices are identified by the FreeBSD kernel vs linux. I know also that when using a ZFS boot partition, it takes a lot longer to my system to boot compared to UFS... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David Demelier

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 23:10 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? I think it's because no concerted effort has been put into optimizing the boot time on FreeBSD. I tested a stripped-down kernel on my iBook G4 a while ago and it would boot in a

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I think it's because no concerted effort has been put into optimizing the boot time on FreeBSD. I tested a stripped-down kernel on my iBook G4 a while ago and it would boot in a couple of seconds - but that was without any

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 4 Mar 2011, at 23:10, 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

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread ill...@gmail.com
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