Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:41:19 +0200 From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot/shutdown times Message-ID: <45aa7fb7-4235-5483-cbd4-059132bc730c@tinka.africa> In-Reply-To: <CAM8r67BDFqLYUSVOrW4kev33Z2Kd2ATex0CzXYO%2BeSrc%2BHeFew@mail.gmail.com> References: <CABWFOjvr4c%2BEW9sVdvDsjAkRs-VXMZG2FiCoi4eB0i5MYMVTOg@mail.gmail.com> <CAM8r67BDFqLYUSVOrW4kev33Z2Kd2ATex0CzXYO%2BeSrc%2BHeFew@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/12/21 02:14, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: > My FreeBSD box boots/shutdowns quickly. I would say way faster than > Linux (i.e. (L)Ubuntu or Kali). Since I started using ZFS root I never > even had to fsck. > > I noticed that replacing HDD with SSD brings dramatic speed up to the > whole system even on older machines. M2 SSD are even faster (assuming > hardware has support for it). > > I can also see a dramatic difference in boot/shutdown/work speed of > Lubuntu Linux when working on a machine using SSD (very fast), HDD > (standard), SD card (slow), and USB3.0 Pendrive (extremely slow like > 20x slower than HDD). This also depends on kernel version and built in > configuration. > > Linux uses initramfs. That may be the source of speed up? Maybe with > FreeBSD you could put its boot and/or base into ramfs I wonder how > would that speed things up? :-) I've found that the fastest way to improve boot-up times is running FreeBSD on a VM. I don't care so much about shutdown times, even though those are pretty respectable. Mark.
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