On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Per Jessen wrote:
IMO, server bootup time is immaterial - servers are meant to run and run and run, booting them is an exception. Even so, when I reboot a server maybe once a year, I don't mind if bootup takes e.g. 5 minutes.
Actually, when bootup with a couple of hundred CPUs or thousands of
LUNs has been taking 10s of minutes, customer did care. Which is why
we fixed it for them. ;-)
But, indeed, while a few seconds more or less can be very visible on
your netbook/notebook or desktop, for most servers it's less critical
unless it becomes too much.
Gerald
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Dr. Gerald Pfeifer