Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:48:18 +, Ivor Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 21:30, David George wrote: On 1/18/2005 12:59 PM, mail.com wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu To identify the bottlenecks, here's a cool utility to measure and graph the processes that run during boot: http://www.bootchart.org/ -Greg ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. You could use suspend to ram or suspend to disk for boot times on the order of harddrive spin up times (unless its NFS mounted root, then even faster) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
What...startup time? 0 secondsI never turn mine off. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:59:32 -, mail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Mike Choy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
I counted 42 seconds before kde was up with me hitting enter at the grub prompt rather than waiting. I didn't count the time to enter a username and password either before typing startx. Since kde loaded a lot of windows, I'd imagine I could load myth in that time easily. I'd guess if this was a dedicated myth box you could get down to around 30 seconds with a custom built minimal gentoo system running on modern hardware. Of course that is a guess.. mail.com wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Mike Choy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
Bill Bradley wrote: What...startup time? 0 secondsI never turn mine off. On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:59:32 -, mail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Mike Choy Mine is ~4 minutes right now. Waaay too long. Any good places to look for pointers on what to turn off? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Mike Choy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
Others may find this link informative: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster It describes the process of using 'make' to start the init.d scripts in parallel based on their interdependencies (starting ntp, nfs and samba in parallel, but only after the network interfaces have started). Eliminating unnecessary services entirely is probably far more fruitful. There's no need for samba startup if you're not sharing files with Windows boxes. In my own case, I'd have to count the 30 second delayed autologin of mythtv, so I'd probably lose :-) Cheers, Les Gondor mail.com wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Mike Choy ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:13:47 -0500, Les Gondor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my own case, I'd have to count the 30 second delayed autologin of mythtv, so I'd probably lose :-) You can always set the mythtv user to autologin with no delay when the machine is first booted, then use a delay after that. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] fastest Myth start
On 1/18/2005 12:59 PM, mail.com wrote: Interested to know how fast you guys can get your machines to boot from cold As a starter for 10 i'm currently at 2mins from cold to the myth menu Dont care what machine you have got or what versions of software. Just what is the art of the possible. Last time I checked it was 60 seconds. Using autologin in inittab, runlevel 3, ratpoison, frontend only. -- David ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
