From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 14:22:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D42237B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40406.mail.yahoo.com (web40406.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34BDC43FE9 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from catlord17@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030808212207.26289.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.75.68.125] by web40406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:22:07 PDT Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:22:07 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030808190108.15DF137B405@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Just a quick observation... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:22:07 -0000 I've got my computer triple booting Windows 2000 Pro, which I rarely use, as well as Linux Mandrake 9.1 and FreeBSD 4.8. Today I was thinking about it, and it seemed to me that FreeBSD boots and shuts down faster... So, I decided to do my own little unscientific test. I set up Mandrake to boot to the CLI instead of KDE, as FreeBSD does, and then I timed them booting from the LILO prompt, and shutting down. Both systems are running the stock (unmodified) kernel, and the only difference is that the FreeBSD kernel is compiled from CVSUP from 4.7 with K-6 optimizations. I am running an Athlon XP 1800+ (1.533 GHz) with 512 mb of 233 MHz DDR SDRAM on an Albatron KX400+ Pro mobo, and Linux and FreeBSD are on twin EIDE 30.7 gig hard disks, each on their own controller. The results: Boot Time Shutdown Linux Mandrake 9.1 34.23 seconds 19.01 sec FreeBSD 4.8-Stable 25.85 seconds 6.61 sec To be honest, the time recorded for FreeBSD shutdown time is more than it should be, since the system halted so fast that I didn't realize it had halted for a second. I estimate the actual shutdown time to be something between 5 and 5.5 seconds. Don't know how useful or interesting this is, but I thought I'd share it. :) Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com