Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:38:58 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@gmail.com> To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux Message-ID: <AANLkTi=T11avjC3CqCOKpEDZPNRGoj%2B=NBuRQh3D8sRC@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com> References: <4D716372.2050606@gmail.com>
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I guess part of it must have something to do with how the devices are identified by the FreeBSD kernel vs linux. I know also that when using a ZFS boot partition, it takes a lot longer to my system to boot compared to UFS... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop > and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than > FreeBSD. > > I don't talk about the init/rc script but only kernel initialisation. For > linux kernel it's around 5-6 seconds vs 15-18 seconds for FreeBSD. > > Why FreeBSD is so slower than Linux to boot the kernel? > > Cheers, > > -- > David Demelier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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