Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 22:56:37 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux Message-ID: <AANLkTimOnkSZZ_jgnxVPtLCqm=uQzoF_GKpReqsuvZ7w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com> References: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com>
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On 4 March 2011 17:10, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop > and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than > FreeBSD. > > I don't talk about the init/rc script but only kernel initialisation. For > linux kernel it's around 5-6 seconds vs 15-18 seconds for FreeBSD. > > Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? > USB probe times for FreeBSD are extremely long. I'm not sure of Linux parallelizes this or just waits until rc time. Wireless seems to be a similar issue here. -- --
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