Felix Miata wrote: > Two different boxes, both 550 Mhz. Last timed login: 17 seconds. Might > be a devfs problem. During boot: > > Running DevFs daemon > > displayed on the screen for 2 minutes, 19 seconds. 28 seconds later, > tty1 went blank as X started and changed to tty7. IOW, the devfs startup > message is gone considerably before X ever starts. > > OS/2 Warp 4.52 boots in 79 seconds. W2K boots in 123 seconds. 9.0 takes > 205 seconds to X login manager, 220 seconds to tty1 login prompt, 270 > seconds until KDE is done loading, not counting time spent typing in a > password. > > Total 9.0 boot time, 4.5 minutes, more than half of which is devfs init.
Which is why devfs shouldn't be used for diskless terminals (ie why LTSP is much faster than Mandrake's terminal server). LTSP running on a p90/16MB ram box off a Mandrake 8.1 server booted to a kdm login in 45 seconfs (ie faster than any of of the other OSs on much faster hardware). It would be nice if devfs startup could be made faster. Maybe on some machines devfs is a bad idea ... Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
