[dundee] TuxRadar - The Great Boot Race

[gordon dunlop]

2009/11/2 Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:47:06 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:
>
> > TuxRadar videoed four different 64-bit systems to see which booted up
> > fasted: Vista, Windows7, Ubuntu 9.04 & Ubuntu 9.10
> >
> >
> http://tuxradar.com/content/vista-windows-7-ubuntu-904-and-910-boot-speed-comparison
> >
> > Gordon
>
> One question is: What is the definition of booted up?. For me, I'd say
> say sitting at a terminal with idle cpu and disk.
>
> No dirty tricks like loading X/desktop early and then doing a load of
> stuff in the background. I'm not saying Ubuntu does this, but then
> again they well might, if I remember reading correctly. I'm sure Windows
> is not above this kind of kludge either.
>
> Show me the bootchart!
>
> Although I don't really know what the fuss is about boot times. I boot
> my machines at most once a day (unless booting new kernels).
>
>   That's true, does it matter whether it takes one minute or two minutes to
boot when you are going to use it for a few hours. Maybe its because users
want to see better  performance within their systems (instant-on button age)
and within the IT world performance, efficiency & cost are becoming keywords
or buzzwords that people are reacting to.
I have just finished reading an article about a 100-core processor:

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/11/02/tilera_quanta_servers/

It could really shake up things in the IT world if it is successful

Perhaps more important for mobile/embeded devices, but you'd more
> likely be using sleep/suspend there. I do hibernate my media box
> (900MHz Athlon, running Fedora 10) and it gets back into X pretty quick.
>
>
I do think the power savings of Fedora with the sleep/suspend mode is great
and it reacts quickly when I touch a key.

Gordon


> Andrew
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