Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:55:22 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Times Message-ID: <201206132155.22111.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <1339593689.73426.8.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <4FD66F7E.2060404@brandonfa.lk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206130909310.73934@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1339593689.73426.8.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:21:29 Ian Lepore wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > 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 > > An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a > day, and boot time can be VERY important. Don't assume that the way you > use FreeBSD is the only way. > > -- Ian Try setting: sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1 Might help a bit :-) --HPS
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