On 13 June 2012 12:55, Hans Petter Selasky <hsela...@c2i.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:21:29 Ian Lepore wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> > > 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, >> > >> > mostly kernel time. >> > >> > > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity. >> > >> > true. system that never crash are not often booted >> >> An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a >> day, and boot time can be VERY important. Don't assume that the way you >> use FreeBSD is the only way. >> >> -- Ian > > Try setting: > > sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1
Can you explain in a bit more detail what this does and why it isn't default? -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ 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"
