Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:21:50 -0400 From: Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd@brandonfa.lk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Boot Times Message-ID: <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, but Linux somehow manages to do it. The Ubuntu install I do pretty much consists of a shell and developers tools, but it still has a generic kernel. There must be some sort of polling done in the FreeBSD boot process that could be parallelized or eliminated. Anyone have any suggestions? Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity. -Brandon
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