[Bug 482127] New: Is there any way we can decrease the time a PC takes to load all boot settings
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482127 Summary: Is there any way we can decrease the time a PC takes to load all boot settings Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Factory Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: alpha096@virginbroadband.com.au QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6 My X_64 Quad Core Phenom running at 3.1 clicks and has 8GB of RAM takes longer to boot and load all the devices drivers and then my Athlon X_64 Dual Core running at 2.4 clicks and 2 GIG of RAM is so much quicker when both are running 11.1. Is this enhancement request as easy as creating a bigger RAM drive at Boot and loading copying all the files needed in the RAM drive or am I being so simplistic its not funny - It just ticks my off the my quad core running a much faster clock and more physical RAM taks so much longer and both PC have the same identical number of HDDs, USB devices and the Athlon has speakers where the Phenom does not. Both use the same Video Card and drivers both at default. Both use ASUS AM2 socket motherboards and both have same size, almost, SATA HDD Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Turn Both PC's on from shutdown at the same time 2. 3. Actual Results: Athlon is quicker by far at boot and final display of Desktop Expected Results: Can we do something that sounds so simple as creating a larger RAM Drive and copy all required files into the RAM drive and load the files from RAM. I think this is such a poor suggestion and I must admit my knowledge of the boot loader is good but not excellent and this morning I am loaded with Espresso to the maX -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482127 User jsrain@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482127#c1 Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #1 from Jiri Srain <jsrain@novell.com> 2009-03-06 06:08:14 MST --- There are several projects aiming to increase the booting speed, which we are evaluating. And since the bottleneck is really I/O, most of them concentrate on more effective reading of files at boot time. You can find some discussions on the opensuse-factory mailing list - which is IMO where this discussion belongs to. And back to your idea: One would need to rebuild the ramdisk at every boot (or every shut-down) so that it has up-to-date files. Since the files which are needed on boot depend heavily on the configuration, it would reallo not be trivial to select files to load to the ramdisk. I don't think that it is worth it - using existing proposals, which others are working on as well, is more effective. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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