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with
4GB ramdisks, each with 512mb ram (later tried 1024mb) and a 4096mb hard dr=
ive
(via the ramdisk).

So I in the end, I had two virtual machines installed:

- Windows Server 2003
- Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

I enabled autologin on the windows installation.

The official results?

I started the Jaunty virtual machine, pressed escape at grub to bring up th=
e
boot menus, then immediately hit enter and started a stopwatch at the same =
time.

How long did it take to boot to desktop from a default install? 32 seconds.=
 Not
bad!

Worryingly though... now for the Windows 2003 install.

Start the virtual machine, and immediately start the stopwatch. Discard one
second for the bios screen and get.... 8 SECONDS TO DESKTOP!!

Why can we still not do this with Jaunty? :(

You may initially think well Jaunty includes a bunch of extra crap such as =
a
ton of useless kernel modules but then so does Windows?!

How do we move forward from this? What is going wrong? How can I make Jaunt=
y
boot in *seconds* ? We need to beat windows boot time!

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

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<table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0" ><tr><td valign=3D"=
top" style=3D"font: inherit;">8 second to desktop? but is that usable, nt h=
as a horrible of habit of letting you log in BUT NOT ACTUALLY LET YOU DO SO=
METHING. So how long to get to a usable state? <br><br>also running test in=
side a virtual environment, you testing the IO capabilities of the virtual =
machine emulation, do tests on bare metal if you can.<br><br>also, is booti=
ng time such a bad thing, it's not like you have to restart every time you =
install a piece of software or device driver.. like some other operating sy=
stems?<br><br>I tend to hibernate my system to disk on my laptop, so I neve=
r really boot unless I've updated the kernel. I have a super fast harddrive=
 it, I can go from cold to a USABLE system, with all my apps ready and open=
 in about 15 seconds.<br><br>and my laptops a piece of doo doo. and that's =
not bad. Best of all it does'nt play the windows sound.<br><br>and lets fac=
e
 it, once the registry starts to fill, and programs start adding 'tray prog=
rams' and extra 'services' , then boot times quickly approch inifity.<br>:-=
)<br><br>http://undercroft.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/mlf-skeleton-pd-05-k=
j0022.jpg<br><br>is a picture of a typical Windows user waiting for NT to b=
oot. <br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 26/4/09, lug at seany.us=
 <i>&lt;lug at seany.us&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style=3D"border-left=
: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: l=
ug at seany.us &lt;lug at seany.us&gt;<br>Subject: [dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fa=
st boot... still a long way to go?<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" &lt;du=
ndee at lists.lug.org.uk&gt;<br>Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 7:01 PM<br><br><=
pre>After hearing all the hype on ubuntu jaunty booting extremely fast, I d=
ecided to<br>put it to the test!<br><br>The results were rather frightening=
.<br><br>I first installed a Jaunty desktop amd64 on a machine of the
 following spec:<br><br>Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5410  @ 2.33GHz<br>=
12 GB ECC DDR2 @ 667mhz<br>2x1000GB samsung spinpoint drives<br><br>From he=
re I created a 10GB ramdisk (using tmpfs).<br><br>While I'm not terribly im=
pressed with the ramdisk speed, I was able to<br>write to it at 1.2GB/s wit=
h dd.<br><br>From here I installed virtualbox-ose via apt. Created two virt=
ual machines with<br>4GB ramdisks, each with 512mb ram (later tried 1024mb)=
 and a 4096mb hard drive<br>(via the ramdisk).<br><br>So I in the end, I ha=
d two virtual machines installed:<br><br>- Windows Server 2003<br>- Ubuntu =
9.04 Jaunty<br><br>I enabled autologin on the windows installation.<br><br>=
The official results?<br><br>I started the Jaunty virtual machine, pressed =
escape at grub to bring up the<br>boot menus, then immediately hit enter an=
d started a stopwatch at the same time.<br><br>How long did it take to boot=
 to desktop from a default install? 32 seconds.
 Not<br>bad!<br><br>Worryingly though... now for the Windows 2003 install.<=
br><br>Start the virtual machine, and immediately start the stopwatch. Disc=
ard one<br>second for the bios screen and get.... 8 SECONDS TO DESKTOP!!<br=
><br>Why can we still not do this with Jaunty? :(<br><br>You may initially =
think well Jaunty includes a bunch of extra crap such as a<br>ton of useles=
s kernel modules but then so does Windows?!<br><br>How do we move forward f=
rom this? What is going wrong? How can I make Jaunty<br>boot in *seconds* ?=
 We need to beat windows boot time!<br><br>Regards,<br>Sean McRobbie<br><br=
>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users =
Group mailing list<br>dundee at lists.lug.org.uk  http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>=
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on=
 dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>=0A=0A=0A=0A=
      
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