From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 18 16:19:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05453 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05443 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup640.serv.net [207.207.65.40]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16509; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980618161851.007f0620@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:18:51 -0700 To: Alex Nash From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806182226.RAA18321@nash.pr.mcs.net> References: <199806181637.MAA27806@luomat.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:26 PM 6/18/98 -0500, you wrote: >My 486/100 laptop boots up in 41 seconds (timed until the login: prompt >appeared), and provides mail services equivalent to MS Exchange, a >secure shell service, and assorted services courtesy of inetd (FTP, >telnet, finger etc.). My Pentium II 233MHz takes about 43 seconds to >load Windows 95 (timed until the cursor actually became usable -- >getting a GUI with an hourglass doesn't count), and provides only one >service: SMB file sharing. It shouldn't be taking that long. You need to work on tuning and configuring it. I almost wish you lived near me, I'm an *expert* at this, and my Win95 boots in about 15 seconds on my P200MMX (when my SparQ drive is turned off and its not probing for it... this adds a few extra seconds). BTW, CPU speed has very little effect on boot time for any OS. Boot time is more controlled by what drivers are being loaded (and how the driver interacts with the OS at boot time), the speed of the hard drive, and how much RAM is in the machine. -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message