on 12/06/2012 01:21 Brandon Falk said the following: > Greetings, > > I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so long > to > boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, literally > takes > 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where FreeBSD takes about 10-20 seconds. > I'm > not sure if anything could be parallelized in the boot process, but Linux > somehow manages to do it. The Ubuntu install I do pretty much consists of a > shell and developers tools, but it still has a generic kernel. There must be > some sort of polling done in the FreeBSD boot process that could be > parallelized > or eliminated. > > Anyone have any suggestions?
Do you have a breakdown of the boot time between pre-loader, loader, kernel and rc stages? > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity. Ditto. :-) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
