On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so > > long > > to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux distro, > > literally > > takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where FreeBSD takes about 10-20 > > seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be parallelized in the boot process, > > mostly kernel time. > > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity. > > true. system that never crash are not often booted
An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a day, and boot time can be VERY important. Don't assume that the way you use FreeBSD is the only way. -- Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
