On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Robert Luciani <[email protected]> wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: >> Booting FreeBSD 7.1 into a full KDE 4.2 >> desktop takes less than 5 minutes. This is using 3x 120 GB SATA >> drives in a single raidz1. > > Wow 5 minutes?! > I don't think I'd be pushing it if I said that seems really slow. :S > On such a fast machine I'd be irritated if it took over a minute to boot. On > my > 3Ghz Athlon X2 w/ 2Gb RAM, DragonFly boots vkernels, hosting services, and > Gnome > in about a minute with my two 500Gb hammer drives.
That includes the BIOS/POST delays to find the USB stick, a boot.config delay, the boot menu delay, loading the kernel off a USB stick delay, loading a bunch of kernel modules off the USB stick, the SCSI sub-system delay, starting a bunch of daemons including Samba, DHCPd, Apache, NFSd, and KDM, and then logging in. The time from the kernel being loaded to the desktop appearing is about 2 minutes. It just takes a long time to get to the point where the kernel is loaded. :) -- Freddie Cash [email protected]
