Hello all, I have been testing my box, to see how fast it boots up and down. I made this test in two different os'es: mdk8.1 (which was heavily patched, and will be described latter), and mdk9.0. The h/w is AMD Athlon XP1600+ with 256mb ram, and a 40gb h/d (IBM).
Both of those osses logged in by default into a kde environment: mdk8.1 I set kdm to autologin, and in mdk9.0 I used autologin itself (kdm was not used until after I log out). The time was measured (by hand) between the time I press the enter button in lilo, and the time ksplash was closed. The downtime, was measured from the time I press the mouse (on the shutdown icon) to the time when the computer has completely off. (kmenu->close enviroment->shut down or an icon in the desktop which called "shutdown -h now"). I verified that the environment was not loaded with tons of app's. The one which were loaded are: klipper, korganizer (only the kicker icon) and the sound applet. Needless to say that the box is the same for all those tests and the machine was shutdown'ed between tests. The patches on the mdk8,1: First of all it uses a self compiled kernel, (which I intend to upload to iglu soon): with low latency, preemtible and supermount. Then I updated modutils, binutils and several other packages which are non relevant here. The kde used is kde3.1rc3 and qt3.1b2. Both compiled with gcc2.96 (did not update that one, the original one from mdk8.1). Th mdk9.0 is running the same kde but with qt3.1 (final) and compiled with gcc3.2 (that comes in mdk9.0). results: -------- mdk 8.1 (up/down in [min]:sec:msec): first round -> 50:21/17:39 second round -> , 50:94/17:05 mdk9.0 (logging into kde3.03 from mdk9.0): first round -> 55:59/21:78 second round -> 55:69 / 22:00 mdk9.0 (logging into self compiled kde 3.1) first round * -> 1:05:01 / 21:30 second round -> 57:60/22:18 third round -> 1:08:09/22:98 forth round -> 1:08:26/21:98 (the first round, kde loaded konqui, konsole, xchat, kopete, and kget, the others did not). mdk9.0 (logging into kde3.1 using the same kernel which was used in mdk 8.1) first round -> 54:10/18:53 second round -> 55:59/19:98 For perspective, when I got this machine it was installed with Windows XP, and from the time I pressed the POWER button on the machine to the moment it finished loading up, it took 36 seconds. The time was doubled when I installed linux and win2k on the same machine. The system menus, lilo and winxp's menu, made that load a little slower (30 secs more) even though each was configured to continue after 3 secs. Some more times: In mdk 9.0 the self compiled kde3.1 and the default 3.03 logs in about 15 sec the first time and ~8.5 seconds. the second time, in mdk8.1 it takes about 20-25 secs the first time, and 12-15 the second time.. "free" shows that no virtual memory is used at all in both oses. Hope you enjoy it, and find it more pleasent then it was for me to measure it... ;-) - diego ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
