Have you ever measured how fast your computer boots up?
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View Poll Results: Whats your boot time (in seconds) ??
Under 30 seconds from the grub screen to lxde. Crappy dell desktop,with Debian Sid using insserv, concurrency=starpar, readahead, preload, prelink, GDM using autologin
I just timed it and it boots in about 38 seconds (the first 25 seconds taken up by the BIOS, though). And that's not including the time for Xfce to start, because I made mine boot into the command line.
Distro: Fedora 12, modified to boot to runlevel 3 instead of 5
CPU: Intel Core i7 920
Memory: 6GB
Form: Desktop
I don't have much of a hi-fi spec, just a core2duo and 2Gigs of ram on this PC and on laptop 4gigs. It's about customizing the initscripts, also background the daemons,ie parallel booting. I'm sure pixellany has similar boot time.
When using Slackbox, I managed to tweak it to about 40-45sec. Maybe I'm missing some other stuffs to configure to reduce boot time.
EDIT: Btw, by boot time I meant the time from boot menu to login screen.
Remember I use slim or xdm which load faster than gdm and kdm.
I can't really test it right now, because every time I reboot my machine I have to reset the router to get back online.
However, I can estimate that from GRUB to gdm it probably takes anywhere from 30-40 secs. I could be being a little optimistic, though.
Specs:
IntelŪ PentiumŪ 4 CPU @2.66GHz
1.5GB (1536MB) RAM (333MHz; yes it's slow )
3 hard disks: 320GB WD 7200RPM SATA (has Ubuntu on it), 40GB ATA (manufacturer unknown; has WinXP on it; came with computer), 160GB Maxtor USB External (data only)
NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT GPU w/ 512MB VRAM
Ubuntu 9.04 as primary OS
EDIT: Also, no fancy specialized boot scripts or anything like that, just the defaults
My 64-bit machine boots in about 48 sec (from bootloader), this is an Intel Quad Q9300. It would be faster if I disabled HAL tho. The two biggest slowdowns during boot are while loading acpid and HAL, the rest are loaded quickly. I wonder if there's a way to get these to load faster ? I did background them in the startup scripts.
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