From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 15:44:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D77106566B for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 15:44:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0D678FC0A for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2011 15:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29906 invoked by uid 0); 5 Mar 2011 15:43:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2011 15:43:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=AzCX+v0Rw9rwzmqyt0RWi0oVrz4K2n+Fls41MKbKf5M/V4VF9Ddjm43ZxX9aucipyrlj1KnRlciJCYv3ugt/cbvkiMhqM/+emeVrpOuEaEixmzDxS3kj7tAdSyUXGqOz; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvte9-0002AI-MU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:43:58 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:32:48 -0700 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:32:48 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110305153248.GA53295@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:44:01 -0000 --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:10:58PM +0100, David Demelier wrote: >=20 > I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my=20 > laptop and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster=20 > than FreeBSD. a note: You probably meant "as fast", rather than "faster": 2x "as fast" =3D boots in half the time 2x "faster" =3D boots in one third the time 3x "as fast" =3D boots in one third the time 3x "faster" =3D boots in one quarter the time Which did you mean -- half to one third the time, or one third to one=20 quarter the time? I ask because I see the mistake made where people say "faster", "more", "higher", "cheaper", and so on -- when what they really mean is "as fast", "as much", "as high", "as cheap", and so on -- all the time. It gets annoying that people misuse the language (often accidentally, though I'm pretty sure it's intentional a lot of the time in the case of advertising) such that these comparisons end up sounding more dramatic and exciting. (We now return you to your regularly scheduled anecdotal benchmarking discussion.) --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1yV6AACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV3GQCgz8bAPiH8TzR8bPCT7ayHhlkC TSYAoNOw6YFT3t+UaykrYTf54p19qfu2 =ZnuX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--