From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 06:47:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15217 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 06:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nash.pr.mcs.net (nash.pr.mcs.net [204.95.47.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15175 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 06:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@nash.pr.mcs.net) Received: (from alex@localhost) by nash.pr.mcs.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA22084; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:31:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alex) Message-Id: <199806191331.IAA22084@nash.pr.mcs.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:31:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... To: fewtch@serv.net cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980618161851.007f0620@mx.serv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18 Jun, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > 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). My Windows box is an incredibly simplistic setup. Would you care to share what knobs one would have to tweak to cut the boot time by two thirds (shouldn't be a problem for a self-proclaimed expert :)? > BTW, CPU speed has very little effect on boot time for any OS. Nobody claimed that it did. However, memory to memory copies (which are plentiful at boot time) and daemon startup times are highly dependent on CPU/bus speed. > Boot time > is more controlled by what drivers are being loaded (and how the driver > interacts with the OS at boot time), The majority of driver loading time has nothing to do with interaction with the OS, but instead, interaction with the hardware they control. > the speed of the hard drive, I'm glad you brought that up: the Windows machine in question has a fast/wide SCSI drive attached to an Adaptec 2940. The laptop has a wheezing IDE drive which maxes out at about 1.3MB/sec (approximately 5 times slower than the SCSI drive). > and how > much RAM is in the machine. Windows: 64MB FreeBSD: 24MB Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message