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Aprz

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From: Newark

Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 277

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

9 seconds to dwm.

Edit: I hear Ubuntu had something that speed it up compared to Arch, but not sure if that was something with Upstart or Readahead. At least I recall seeing a discussion on it because somebody was complaining how minimal/light weight Arch was beat by Ubuntu on the same machine.

Last edited by Aprz (2009-10-19 07:41:57)

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

With Arch, I get 15 seconds from grub to tty on my Thinkpad x61s. I'm using grub2 and ext4.

Same. 15seconds exactly. Using grub2,ext4 and plymouth.

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eldragon

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From: Buenos Aires

Registered: 2008-11-18

Posts: 1,029

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

9 seconds to dwm.

Edit: I hear Ubuntu had something that speed it up compared to Arch, but not sure if that was something with Upstart or Readahead. At least I recall seeing a discussion on it because somebody was complaining how minimal/light weight Arch was beat by Ubuntu on the same machine.

ive installed ubuntu in my gf's notebook and i was surprised at its boot speed...but it was comparable with my arch notebook (which is much slower than hers). no benchmarks tho...

tomd123

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 565

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

It takes around 20 seconds from a cold boot to get to kdm login prompt. Although I have recently discovered kexec which reduces my reboots to about 9 seconds till kdm prompt.

Vamp898

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From: 東京

Registered: 2009-01-03

Posts: 909

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Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

SoI just install openrc? Is that cli based? What is backgrounding? Is there another way to background processes? Is there anything I shouldn't background?

OpenRC is that what is used in Gentoo. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml

Silverwing

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From: /etc

Registered: 2009-06-23

Posts: 34

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

Ubuntu is currently preaching an extreme boot time, but things don't work out for me. Ubuntu boot time: 1:15, Arch boot time: 0:13

Boot time is measured from pressing enter in grub to the logon screen.

Edit: ubuntu was using grub2, arch old grub.. Both use ext4.

Last edited by Silverwing (2009-10-20 09:25:19)

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JaMeSiTeGeN

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 5

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

xD 3-4 seconds. ( starting from :: Arch init section )

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

around 30 S to GDM from power ON.

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Natanji

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 133

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

I use Arch on a laptop. It wakes up from standby in a second. So I don't really need a fast boot time...

My boot takes longer (around 40 seconds) because I need to input my encryption passwords.

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Arch vs Others Boot Time

Riviving a two years old thread without much benefit.

Closing.

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