Boot charting

For what it's worth, Windows XP boots a hell of a lot faster - all the
way in - than Ubuntuu and gnome does. On my laptop, atleast. Even when
I skip setting up the nonexistant ethernet connection on boot. A 45
second boot time does't exactly help user-perceived performance when
you show off Ubuntu to a friend, either ;-)

On 11/13/05, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:27 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > On So, 2005-11-13 at 16:10 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > > dist-upgraded). When I installed your package I got the error:
> > >
> > >         Setting up bootchart (0.8-0ubuntu2) ...
> > >         /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386 was been altered.  Cannot update
> > >
> > run:
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
> > to force the regeneration of the initramfs image.
>
> Thanks, yeah that has done the trick (and made usplash work too).
> Shouldn't the package do that automatically?
>
> Anyhow, now for some results.
>
> http://www.mdke.org/images/dapper-20051113-1.png
>
> To be honest I am actually quite pleased with boot times (45 seconds is
> fine for me, and since suspend to ram works too...), the only thing that
> really constitutes a problem is the fact that the network ifup service
> stops for ages while I am not within range of my home network (for
> example if I move to the office) and this then leads to the ntpdate
> service losing lots of time too. I use profiles in network-admin, but of
> course this doesn't help on boot.
>
> On Windows, one of the reasons it is quicker at booting is (I think)
> that it doesn't hang around waiting for the network services to start
> up. Then again, it takes a hell of a lot longer to log in on Windows
> than to log into Gnome. :)
>
> No idea if this feedback is useful or not, but anyhow, I'll keep posting
> newer boot chart images at that address (or upload them somewhere else
> if this is helpful?).
>
> Thanks, Matt
>
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