Randy McMurchy wrote: > On a much more modern machine than the 500mhz machine I threw out > stats on already (2400+ Athlon), from the time boot logging starts > and the time it ends is 12 seconds. And on this machine, a few more > processes are started.
That stat on this machine is only three seconds (14:18:11 to 14:18:14). But that three-second number really doesn't match up to anything I measured with a stopwatch, see below. > For you laptop guys, about how long does it take to boot from GRUB to > prompt using the current bootscripts (I say from GRUB, as the GRUB > menu is displayed almost instantaneously after BIOS checks and the > system begins booting)? Not a laptop, but I get 30 seconds from pressing enter in grub until getting the login: prompt. Notes: 1) This test included almost 10 seconds of just the kernel booting up. The bootscripts didn't start running until around second number 8 or 9. 2) This test also didn't quite use the current bootscripts: I've changed my copy of the udev script to add a 5-second sleep after the udevsettle call. Without that, I kept getting kernel messages while other scripts were coming up, because various stuff didn't happen in time. (I run with dmesg -n set at 7, but I don't care about all that detail while devices are being found, so for the duration of udev, I set dmesg -n 4. But it got set back before the drivers finished loading.) So take 5 seconds off for that modification. 3) About 5-6 seconds of that was waiting for a DHCP lease. I'm not sure what it is with this NIC, but it's quite slow at getting a lease. So the bootscripts themselves were only around 10 seconds of that time. But of course I don't start X up at boot time, either. The CPU is a dual-core Athlon 64 4200, if that matters.
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