Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)

[Bryan Pizzuti]

The boot time of Linux in general was what made me suggest a hibernate mode
for portable PCs. Not that it wouldn't be useful in non-server desktops too.
;)  It has to be a bit slower due to the way it's designed...this has to be
running to get that started, etc; and it makes sure everything is up before
you log in. Yeah, It's longer than XP, but one of the things that annoys me
about Windows is that I log in, try to start up the web or something, and I
have to wait, because it isn't REALLY finished booting. ;)

So do me a favor...when the desktop appears, make sure the system is ready
to work, not still loading stuff in the background. I don't mind waiting so
much, but I DO mind waiting when it looks like it's done booting. ;) 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Roe
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 8:03 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)


> Have you timed this? Because it would be very encouraging... I timed 
> the startup times (Grub to loaded desktop with auto login) of FC2, 
> Ubuntu

On my laptop (P3-500,192Mb) from grub menu to gdm starting is 1 minute
15 seconds, about 5 more seconds to get into xfce using auto-login.
Loading GNOME would add another 30+ seconds to that, so I don't use it.

That's about the same as Mandrake 10 (~1 minute,IIRC) and SuSE 9.1 (~1
minute 30 seconds). Arch was much faster, down at around 30ish seconds;
buggy as hell, of course, but it was quite fast. I'd say my threshold for
start up being "effectively instantaneous" would be around 30 seconds.
Debian Sarge was about halfway between - 45-50seconds, IIRC. 

The reason Arch was so fast is that it did virtually nothing at boot: it
seemed to go uncompress kernel, load modules, start udev and run GDM.

All timings with no unnecessary services running (no syslog,postfix,cups
etc), and everything apart from the Ubuntu boot time is from my hazy memory.
It's not a major issue, it's just a "would be nice if anyone has time to do
it" thing.

Ben



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