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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:10:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd@brandonfa.lk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Boot Times
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206130909310.73934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4FD66F7E.2060404@brandonfa.lk>
References:  <4FD66F7E.2060404@brandonfa.lk>

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> Greetings,
>
> I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so long 
> to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, literally 
> takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where FreeBSD takes about 10-20 
> seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be parallelized in the boot process,

mostly kernel time. 
> Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.

true. system that never crash are not often booted



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