Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:45:55 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities] |
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Hi!
> > > I'm really not trolling, but I suspect if we made the boot process less > > > verbose, people would start to wonder more about why Linux takes so much > > > longer than XP to boot. > > > > By the way, Microsoft seems to be claiming that boot time will be reduced to the half > > with Longhorn. While we already know how ms marketing team works, 50% looks > > like a lot. Is there a good place to discuss what could be done in the linuxland to > > improve things? It doesn't looks like a couple of optimizations will be enought... > > > > Yup, many people on this list seem unaware but read the XP white papers, > then try booting it side by side with Linux. They put some serious, > serious engineering into that problem and came out with a big win. > Screw Longhorn, we need improve by 50% to catch up to what they can do > NOW. > > The solution is fairly well known. Rather than treating the zillions of > disk seeks during the boot process as random unconnected events, you
Heh, we actually tried that at SuSE and yes, eliminating seeks helps a bit, but no, it is not magicall cure you'd want it to be.
Only solution seems to be "do less during boot". Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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