[dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go?

[Sean McRobbie]

Hm, that is true, however remember the install of Jaunty was intended as a desktop install, not server.

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Ladyman" <it at file-away.co.uk>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, 26 April, 2009 19:18:08 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go?

Ah, well now - the Windows desktop might be up, but it is highly probably that 
a lot of the network services, etc., weren't complete: they tend to load in 
the background once the fancy screen is up. Make sure you measure like with 
like.

On Sunday 26 April 2009 19:01:06 lug at seany.us wrote:
> After hearing all the hype on ubuntu jaunty booting extremely fast, I
> decided to put it to the test!
>
> The results were rather frightening.
>
> I first installed a Jaunty desktop amd64 on a machine of the following
> spec:
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5410  @ 2.33GHz
> 12 GB ECC DDR2 @ 667mhz
> 2x1000GB samsung spinpoint drives
>
> >From here I created a 10GB ramdisk (using tmpfs).
>
> While I'm not terribly impressed with the ramdisk speed, I was able to
> write to it at 1.2GB/s with dd.
>
> >From here I installed virtualbox-ose via apt. Created two virtual machines
> > with 4GB ramdisks, each with 512mb ram (later tried 1024mb) and a 4096mb
> > hard drive (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
> the 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
> Jaunty boot in *seconds* ? We need to beat windows boot time!
>
> Regards,
> Sean McRobbie
>
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