Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. I just got the OK from management. The system we were booting was > for research only. We had NR_CPUS=num_online_cpus()=4096 which were > non-hyperthreaded. With no attached I/O and the tweak I originally > posted plus one change Jack has already gotten accepted, the machine > booted in approx 12 minutes.
How much of that time was between the time the kernel was loaded and before user space was started? Twelve minutes sounds like a long time for a boot, if you aren't fsck'ing filesystems. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/