The boot-up showdown

In a mere two hours of tweaking and tuning I managed to shave a massive 6 seconds off the boot time, through, truth to tell, the productivity benefits are minimal because I leave all my systems on 24x7.
 
Surely up time is more important than boot time? I only restart my laptop after a critical update but as soon as I open the lid its ready to go.
 
bwana said:
Surely up time is more important than boot time? I only restart my laptop after a critical update but as soon as I open the lid its ready to go.
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same here. Only time my PCs get restarted is after a kernel update
 
It's rather silly leaving your PCs on 24/7 up here on the Highveld, unless you have really good UPSes with lightning protection. When I leave home, I make sure all PCs are disconnected from any copper going out the house.
 
Sorry for derailment response:
BigAl-sa said:
It's rather silly leaving your PCs on 24/7 up here on the Highveld, unless you have really good UPSes with lightning protection.
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True.
I do (have protection & decent UPSs) on all critical systems at home (WHS server and 4 workstations) - the rest are not worth the expense. A major killer of electronics is thermal cycling, so leaving systems on is one of the best ways of preserving reliability. Also, HDDs only approach spec'd MTBFs if you leave 'em running 24x7.

Now back to topic.
 
Garyvdh said:
Why does it have to be a war?

Why can't we just keep working to make them both boot faster?

Personally I use both and would like them both to boot fast.

nuff said. Thanks.
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Competition is what gets them off their lazy asses.

The more they push each other, the better it is for us.
 
boot time is important in the netbook sector apparently due to the fact that the initial thought is that you lug it with you everywhere and if needs be can just quickly flip,power on,use quickly bla bla bla.....but isnt that what standby is there for?
 
porchrat said:
I must admit I don't understand this idea of "my OS boots up faster than yours!"

Honestly Murphy's Law tells us that on the one boot that you need to have the OS up in 30 seconds or less your ubuntu machine is going to want to run fsck, because damnit you've booted 25 times without running it!!

What matters in functionality and stability, I thought 8.04 booted up quickly enough. As long as you aren't sitting waiting for several minutes does it really matter how long it takes?

EDIT: You have posted 25 times without running fsck, fsck will now check your post for errors.
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Have you ever tried the xfs file system? Give openrc a try too :rolleyes:
 
Rouxenator said:
I had 8MB RAM in my 386DX40 and it had a TI 387 Mathco. It booted windows 95 pretty well and the matchco did make for better performance in Doom2.

Funny thing is - whenever someone speaks of an 40Mhz 386 you can be sure it was an AMD because intel's 386es topped out at 33Mhz (OK maybe a Cyrix). The Am386DX-40 was awesome because on 386 the FSB and CPU speed were still 1:1 so using a AMD 386 40Mhz you could have a maximum memory throughput of 152.6MB/s !

Sorry - I got carried away - but I am passionate about old PC stuff.
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AMD was cute, I had a 586 AMD 133MHz and couldn't run winamp without scaling to 22KHz, when winamp was the hip mp3 player. So I had the intel p1 60Mhz playing winamp fine, but nothing else :p I wonder how much there is to changing the CPU for better boot times. Or is it rather the (disk) controller that comes with the system? Drivers are different on OS too, some times it doesn't enable the high speed settings for your drive (hdparm). So many fine tuning options available on Linux. :rolleyes:
 
The FPU on any non-intel before the AMD K6 came along was inferior. But luckily AMD did get it right with the K6 and now, going onto K10 so to speak, they are still the best.
 
<moLe> said:
boot time is important in the netbook sector apparently due to the fact that the initial thought is that you lug it with you everywhere and if needs be can just quickly flip,power on,use quickly bla bla bla.....but isnt that what standby is there for?
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Exactly.

Win-7 does not even have a shutdown option, only sleep and hibernate.

Shows how well researched some of these comments are. :rolleyes:
 
vodacom3g said:
Exactly.

Win-7 does not even have a shutdown option, only sleep and hibernate.

Shows how well researched some of these comments are. :rolleyes:
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yes, i know what you mean.

P.S. winkey, right arrow, enter.
there, it shuts down.

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachme...indows-7-build-7000-64-bit-screen-shots-5.png
you can clearly see the massive shutdown button on the picture....i think where you are confused is if you select the arrow option..in vista you used to have shutdown on that part, and it is true of build 6801 (pdc) also for win7, but build 7000 and 7022 have it as shown in the picture.
 
Maybe a silly question here - with so many it bofs writing in.........
Where can I get a "free" copy of Win7 & Ubuntu s/w? Jes to try out !
 
elmorya said:
Maybe a silly question here - with so many it bofs writing in.........
Where can I get a "free" copy of Win7 & Ubuntu s/w? Jes to try out !
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hmm. think windows closed their beta downloads..so you you will have to trace down a buddy with a copy (dont ask me about how legal that whould be..dont have a clue wether you are allowed to copy the beta or use the same Cd-key) otherwise torrents. Ubuntu's beta i think you might need to to be a developer or register as a beta tester not sure once again, but my advice whould be go 8.10 and then when 9.04 is released just "update" to that.
 
vodacom3g said:
Exactly.

Win-7 does not even have a shutdown option, only sleep and hibernate.

Shows how well researched some of these comments are. :rolleyes:
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Right click on it and select properties - it will take you to the Taskbar and Start menu properties where you can permanently change it.
Rouxenator said:
So what do you run on your laptop then ?
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OsX on the Mac's, Windows 7 on the netbook, and (even though you didnt ask) dual booting XP and Ubuntu on a few desktops. Windows 7 on the netbook doesnt wake up nearly as fast as I would like (or as reliably) but it's beta days still.
 
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