Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Mar 2008 23:23 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
"Last month we had measured Ubuntu's boot performance via the open-source Bootchart utility and had done this on all Ubuntu releases between Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and the latest development build at the time for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. From this testing we had found the boot time to decrease with each official release and the maximum disk throughput increasing. With Fedora 9 Sulphur due out next month, we have done this same boot performance testing on the Fedora side with Core 4, Core 5, Core 6, 7, 8, and 9 Rawhide."
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Member since:2006-01-16
Arch Linux Boot Performance:
http://fopref.meinungsverstaerker.de/div/bootchart1.png
http://fopref.meinungsverstaerker.de/div/bootchart2.png
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I tried ArchLinux about two months ago and the boot time was slower than in most distros because loading udev uevents took almost a minute to finish. I checked the ArchLinux forums and it appears that a lot of users have experienced the same issue, especially those whose computer is a bit old.
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I noticed, yesterday, that readahead was not in the default install for my Fedora 8 machines. Looking at the boot charts, it looks like 8 and 9 do not use it. Anyone have info on the rationale? It was always a bit of a hack. But my understanding was that it *did* help.