Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:32:40 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: simple task to speed up booting Message-ID: <43445.1418553160@critter.freebsd.dk>
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The rotating swirlie ('-/|\') in the loader accounts for a surprisingly
large part of our boot time on systems with slow-ish serial consoles.
I think right now it takes a step for each 512 byte read, reducing that
to once every 64kB or even 1MB would be an improvement with the kind of
kernel sizes we have today.
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