On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:22:58 +0100
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Only if your BIOS is crap. I've seen server boards which spent >2 minutes in the BIOS, and once the BIOS was replaced with coreboot, the delay magically shrunk to 3-4 seconds (for a big multiprocessor board with all RAM slots populated). With coreboot, the limiting factor is
Depends on how you define "big" and how many "all" means in number. XEN also needs a long time to clean the memory on start and while I'm not suggesting that XEN is doing everything in the best way, and I have no idea of the current memory bandwidth, but assume 20GB/second and you'll need at least one minute to clear memory. -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org