Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement

[Dougie Richardson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Zimmerman" <mdz at canonical.com>
To: "Dougie Richardson" <ddrichardson at btinternet.com>
Cc: "Steve Langasek" <steve.langasek at canonical.com>; "Ubuntu Doc Team" 
<ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: Draft: Gutsy beta release announcement


> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:29:06AM +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Would you mind sharing your measurements?  Were these both fresh
>>> installations?  In my experience, a fresh installation will often boot
>>> more
>>> quickly than one which has been updated over time.
>>>
>>> While it's certainly possible that changes made to fix other issues have
>>> also provided a faster boot, I would be very hesitant to promote this as 
>>> a
>>> feature of the release without a more concrete idea of the cause and
>>> concrete measurements.
>>
>> I have set up to VM's each with a fresh install, One
>> 7.04, one 7.10 and the 7.10 they boot to the login prompt in 2 minutes 5
>> seconds and 1 minute 15 seconds respectively. I used VM's to give a level
>> playing field.
>
> Thanks for doing this.  How much memory did you give the two VMs?  I 
> believe
> the default is 256.  Do you get the same results if you increase both to
> 512M?

Both have 512 Mb, both have dual core support, neither has vmware tools 
installed (there is a bug with the vmnet module in Gutsy).

Dougie Richardson
dougie at lynxworks.eu
http://blog.lynxworks.eu/