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

[Sean McRobbie]

It was full to desktop (autologin) and showing the R2 welcome screen.

Unfortunately the machine has now been shipped off to london for rackmounting but next time I have a chance to test on play kit I'll give it a bash.

For a better test in future I guess it'd be better to test how long it takes before it'll serve a page on a webserver with SQL on it.

As for tray apps loading, I'd imagine they only take seconds. For example, when you open up search and search for '*' you get a list of the entire drive.. instantly

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hughes" <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, 27 April, 2009 16:06:19 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go?


8 second to desktop? but is that usable, nt has a horrible of habit of letting you log in BUT NOT ACTUALLY LET YOU DO SOMETHING. So how long to get to a usable state? 

also running test inside a virtual environment, you testing the IO capabilities of the virtual machine emulation, do tests on bare metal if you can. 

also, is booting 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 systems? 

I tend to hibernate my system to disk on my laptop, so I never 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. 

and my laptops a piece of doo doo. and that's not bad. Best of all it does'nt play the windows sound. 

and lets face it, once the registry starts to fill, and programs start adding 'tray programs' and extra 'services' , then boot times quickly approch inifity. 
:-) 

http://undercroft.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/mlf-skeleton-pd-05-kj0022.jpg 

is a picture of a typical Windows user waiting for NT to boot. 

Cheers, 
Lee 


--- On Sun, 26/4/09, lug at seany.us <lug at seany.us> wrote: 


From: lug at seany.us <lug at seany.us> 
Subject: [dundee] Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty fast boot... still a long way to go? 
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk> 
Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 7:01 PM 

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