Re: Yet another OS

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:37:20 -0500, Mercury wrote:

*Every* Linux distro I've tried takes more than a minute to boot. WinXP,
about 20 seconds.

That is one fast system you have there. My stop watch says 33 seconds
from boot to where I can move mouse to click Start button. System is
not up though. It is still working and does not respond to the click
on the Start button at that time.

model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 946 306 640 0 15 146


(And yes, this is on the same machine.) XP boots up in
about a third of the time of Linux.

You are wrong and you are not comparing the same thing.

Linux is booting up more services than doze. I just timed XP Home.
I have no idea how to check services to see if the last one was done
on doze.

What I did use, was stop timing at the last popup to enable automatic
updates as the indication of bootup completion. Using a stop watch we have
XP Home 1 minute 42 seconds.
Linux 1 minute 11 seconds.

And your stupid XP would not set the time correctly. I had to use the
Control Panel to tell it to update the time from my lan time server.

The time finishing getting the system UP was not in the time trial.
Automatic updates and firewall are disabled. System is on a lan behind
a linux firewall. XP Home is only booted every second Tuesday to get updates
and has been defragged/scandisked with last update removed.

Windows it not UP faster. Yes, you can get IE to surf the net faster
but Windows is still booting services as seen by the mouse cursor
blinking busy every few seconds. You can also tell system is still
booting by sweeping the mouse back and forth across the screen and see
it pausing while there is more windows activity going on in the
background.

As for firefox launch, it takes the same two seconds on XP as linux.
I do not have any custom kernel tweaks.

Yes I can remove a lot of linux services which are not fired up under
windows to make an even horse race out of it but even with all the
servers under I have under linux, it had already beaten doze by 31
seconds to System COMPLETION, if we throw out syncing time to a time
server. Much longer for doze if we include syncing to time server.

List of enabled services I have booting under Mandriva Linux and the
time is set correctly no less.

# chkconfig --list | grep 3:on
acpi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atieventsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
dkms 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
jexec 0:on 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:on
kadmin 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network-up 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network_ck 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
privoxy 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcidmapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcsvcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
webmin 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
.