Boot times - Page 4

Redian · 04-22-2007, 11:46 PM

you must be the messiah wirelessdreamer, cuz you did one hell of a job bring this thread from the dead...

but yeah... although not for a carPC, my ubuntu partition on a pretty decent computer is about 27 seconds total.. mostly ubuntu booting up cuz the bios is stripped as much as it can be

shotgunefx · 04-23-2007, 02:47 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Redian

you must be the messiah wirelessdreamer, cuz you did one hell of a job bring this thread from the dead...

but yeah... although not for a carPC, my ubuntu partition on a pretty decent computer is about 27 seconds total.. mostly ubuntu booting up cuz the bios is stripped as much as it can be

I'm nearing to 36 seconds for resume2, but my BIOS post takes 10 for itself

blk · 04-24-2007, 02:20 AM

20 secs total from power on (Via EPIA MII-1Ghz, 512 Ram) -> stripped ubuntu (start with a server install, compile your own kernel (or at least take the desktop kernel, as it's using preemption))
initng -> might switch back to upstart.. i came from sys V init..
ratpoison vm (might use matchbox in future)

disable networking if you don't need it or tweak your dhcp.conf file if needed (check the nghost forum on this)

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- i'm not using any resume software (swsusp and stuff) -

dupa2 · 05-02-2007, 07:26 PM

29sec to start music on 1GHz epia-tc, bios takes quite a bit, since my bios rom is soldered to MB, I didn't risk screwing it up, but I think seriously about linuxbios. I also replaced HD with flash disk, this gave me additional savings in boot time.

Link420 · 05-04-2007, 02:21 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by wirelessdreamer

i'm at 30 sec from coldboot in gentoo booted into x autologed in through gdm before vlc starting to play music. i then have all the other apps preload onto other desktops ready to go when i want them. prob can shave another 3 sec off if a compile a few more drivers into the kernel.

If you're looking to minimize time to playing music, try something that doesn't require X, like mpd. Put it early in the startup process and it can start playing before X even begins to load. mpd has several different X frontends available for the interface.

posicat · 07-23-2007, 02:58 PM

I'm running a Dell Latitude CPI (PII/300) with Debian 4.0 (Etch) that I just got installed. My boot time is on the order of 2 minutes, with no tweaking for efficiency yet. I'm thinking of using some sort of hibernation to reduce that to as little as possible.

I did think of a kludge ... get a cheap 128mb/256mb MP3 player, and wire it up to start playing at power on, then the car computer can take as long as it wants to start up, que up a new mp3 to play, and wait for the MP3 player to reach the end of the song, and then play (monitor the sound-out of the player for silence). After that it can erase the MP3 on the player, upload a new one for the next time. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Also, another kludge, modify the startup scripts to start daemons in the background, rather than waiting for them to return control to the script on their own. Might squeeze a little bit more time into the startup.