On Fri, 26 May 2023 06:36:33 -0400 Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> I decided to do a quick 'dd test' of my home-made USB attached m.2 > NVME drive and with a 1MB block size > was able to get over 800MB/sec sequential read performance from the > /dev/sda device. I never suggested that I/O performance wouldn't be better. But the startup sequence of a typical Linux system is more than just I/O performance. When the init system needs to, for example, wait 60 seconds for the Ethernet interfaces to plumb before configuring and starting network services? Or your kernel needs to allocate a hundred GB of hugepages for your application? Ten times faster storage won't matter much in overall startup times. Or maybe I just misunderstood what you meant by, "see if booting from the external SSD would be faster". -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
