Boot charting

On 11/13/05, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski <shot at hot.pl> wrote:
> The catch is in 'all the way in' - I think Windows simply brings up
> the user interface much earlier in the boot process than Ubuntu does.
>
> In my experience Windows is very slow for the first half a minute after
> I log in, as it seems to be still bringing up various parts of itself.

Windows XP seems to be pretty much ready after 20-30 seconds here.
All-in. How many virusscanners and how much spyware you have loading
can probably affect this, however. I have neither, mostly because I
don't really use windows a whole lot ;-)

Anyway, here are two similar but different bootcharts

http://appelsinjuice.org/dapper-20051114-1.png
This is a normal bootup (including the fglrx driver) in dapper, where I've left
my network cable unplugged, but press ctrl-D to cancel the
time-consuming "configuring network interfaces" part of boot.

http://appelsinjuice.org/dapper-20051114-2.png
This is the same, with me not cancelling the configuring network
interfaces part. As you can see, this adds another minute to the boot
time, making it 1:53.

On a sidenote, gnome takes another 42 seconds (yeah, I used a
stopwatch) to start up and come into a usable state, but in all
fairness, I've set it to load gaim plus nm-applet and beagle/best.

Ohwell, hope my charts are useful in making ubuntu beat the crap out
of XP boot-time ;-)