what's your boottime?

[kinematic]

i thought it would be nice to see what kind of boottimes we debian users have.
you only have to install the bootchart package with apt and add the following line to grub "init=/sbin/bootchartd"
after booting you can find a bootchart.tgz in /var/log wich you can render here
http://www.bootchart.org/download.html
scroll to the bottom and upload the .tgz to render it and you end up with this

[sleepyEDB]

Whoa...what an avatar!


I'll have to give that a try when I get home...looks interesting. Also, if you know you won't need to interface with any Apple machines in your network, you can save about 20 seconds or so off your boot time by removing netatalk (AppleTalk) from your box:

As root:

Code: Select all

aptitude purge netatalk

sleepy

[kinematic]

Whoa...what an avatar!

yeah....that whatever it is is just the cutest thing i ever did see

and as you can see by my postcount i'm new to debian(not to linux)and i used to run ubuntu(wich is NOT debian....it's a messed up debian lol)wich booted in 21 seconds(i tried debian before but back than my noobness was causing problems )
testing is a bit slower at 31 seconds but i like it so much better then ubuntu(and fedora core,mandriva,pclinuxos and mepis).

[sleepyEDB]

I too am a relative newbie to Debian and Linux. I've been running Mepis for the past two years as my primary desktop, and now run Etch on my test machine, and Sarge on my fileserver.

Mepis is (or at least, was) Debian-based, so I'm familiar with apt and what not, but there is a lot in the way of multimedia and other tweaks that Mepis does for you. As I get more experienced with Etch, and get all the multimedia and desktop-user things set up, it will probably replace Mepis as my primary desktop.

I didn't think Mepis' recent switch to an Ubuntu-base mattered to me at first, but I'm noticing an increasing number of things that have been done for me that I don't appreciate. Hence, my return to the mothership. (Debian)

PS -- Sorry for the threadjack!


sleepy

[MeanDean]

Celeron 3.06GHz
512mem
21sec
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/7734 ... rt7ua2.png

[defcon]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=19486&start=17
Here it is..

[Lorenzo]

My systems boot is a best time to make a coffee
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~przyboro/ ... tchart.png
http://fatcat.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~przyboro/ ... chart2.png

[matino]

0:24 here, I was hoping to get less though with 2GB RAM and 2.8GHz AMD dual core :

[fireedo]

it tooks 29 seconds here with AMD64 X2 3800 2Gb RAM

[llivv]

I haven't timed it lately. Takes around a minute to login and get X up an ready. Kernal boot is probably half that time with both etch and lenny. Sarge is a bit slower iirc
Happy Boot Charting to all.

[spupy]

25 sec with Celeron M @1,46GHz and 512MB RAM. I think I could shave off a second if i turn off the pesky VMware. I compiled a custom kernel but the boot time didn't differ at all.
I also noticed that in the first graph from bootchart, the CPU and I/O(wait) are awfully high. Any ideas how i can lower them?
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uibxn ... tchart.png

[gnudude]

12 seconds!
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8521/bootchart.png

[cuda]

22s with DHCP, 19s with STATIC

Sorry, I don't have the bootchart app installed, I did it the old fashioned way

Intel D201GLY2 mobo w/Celeron 1.2MHz (½ of a dual core!), OCZ Core 30GB SSD (ext3 with noatime, nobh, writeback, noop scheduler), 1GB RAM, no swap, everything prelinked, and a lot of unnecessary services disabled

[edbarx]

12 seconds!

If I may ask, what is your hardware and which version of Debian are you running?

[gnudude]

That was back in Jan of this year.
Lenny/5.0
Intel 2140 @ 1.60GHz dual-core
1gb of memory

I think it is a cheapo dell vostro 200 system

[gnudude]

bootchart howto - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38869

[jalu]

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 420 @ 1.60GHz
4 GB
Debian Gnu/Linux Sid
18 sec

after i compiled a kernel, changed timer, preemption model and default scheduler and removed some stuff i was (more or less) sure about. Before that it has been 30s, with antix-8.0 20s . to compile i followed RollinStones how-to, the links mentioned there and needed some help in the forum.

with liquorix its 14 seconds, but i havend installed the headers and vbox-modules yet.

edit: i did a minimal kernel and got 11s, but after that vbox crashed the OS.

http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09385/bootchart315.png

edbarx: i posted this more or less as you asked, as i know you are thinking about your specs at the moment. I dont care that much bout the boot-time, i was happy with 30s and i would be happy with a minute too.

[Tixy]

With a standard Squeeze, Bootchart shows 10 seconds for boot and I guess there's about another 10 seconds for the Gnome desktop to start up. This is on an EEEPC 1000HE with the OCZ Vertex SSD I just put in it
With the original hard disk I was getting 25 seconds (to login prompt) + 25 seconds (Gnome startup).

[edbarx]

Switch On - BIOS Tests: 12 sec
GRUB: 10 sec
kernel initialisation - kdm: 24 sec
kdm - KDE: 10 sec

Note:
I have two boot loaders installed, the first one is used as a master menu, the others as slaves. Both of them waste 5 seconds to allow me to navigate the menus. So, the boot loaders waste 10 seconds between them. Furthermore, the BIOS is set to test the computer with every boot.

Edited to write more details.

[jalu]

same here: starting e17 after the "real" boot takes some time too.