What is your boot up time ?

What is your boot up time ? From the moment you select linux in grub, to when the login menu appears ?

Also mention your hardware, wnad what optimisations you have done to reduce boot up time.


I just installed Debian Lenny on Dell precision M6400, Nvidia card, 2.66 Ghz Core2Duo, 7200rpm HDD, 5GB ram
Boot up time (for wired network connection): 29s (5s of which is taken by nvidia module).

Optimisations: I turned off a coupe of NFS services during startup, and an exim4 daemon, saved me 1s

 

Ubuntu - 22 seconds
I enabled concurrency which uses both CPU's on boot, deleted bluetooth services, and turned off some things that my hardware is not capable of.

Windows - 28 seconds
Defrag'ed boot sector (in command "defrag c: -b") and disabled startup programs such as printer, quicktime, and lots of tray icons.

My laptop's spec is in my sig.

 

What are you using to time your boot up? I use bootchart.

Arch Linux.

Used to be 21 seconds, then I changed xorg.conf to use HAL to detect keyboard+mouse and it has been 23 seconds since. [From the time I press the power button, to fully usable desktop is ~ 55 seconds.]

Hardware is in my sig.

I load many start-up daemons in the background to increase efficiency.

 

Wow, your boot up times are fast; how do you do it ?
visiom88, how do you enable concurrency ?

I use a plain old watch to time my boot up

 

Default Ubuntu for me is about 25 seconds.
I've gotten it down to about 18 or so by just removing useless crap.

 

21 seconds, Kubuntu 9.04 X64...hardware in sig....out of the box, done nothing to it yet..includes the Nvidia module. Charr reported fast boot up with Ubuntu 9.04 also.

 

So it is debian lenny that has a slower boot up time then, wierd.
Ah well, after boot up, its supper snappy

 

If I do it custom from Ubuntu CLI I can get about 10 seconds.

 

You mean not boot X ?
What customisations do you do to get the 10s boot up ?

 

I haven't counted with a watch but I would say 15-20 seconds with the computer in my sig. Haven't done any customization on it.

 

Ubuntu on a P4 machine boot up time is 1minute

My new lappy booting up windows - 30 seconds or less without password

 

No I mean taking it from the ground up. With Openbox or fvwm-crystal, Slim, etc.

 

Mien feels really slow at 35 seconds. Any way to get it faster? I think linux really makes up for it with fast shutdown times though I can shutdown in about 5 seconds.

Hardware:

AMD TL-56 (1.8ghz Dual core)
2GB ram
Nvidia 6150 integrated

 

I dont get it ?
What customisations do you do ?

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=31275
I'm gonna follow that, kick everyones butt in here (except for Thomas's 10s boot up time)

 

Basically......you install a Command line only system.
Barebones, no Xorg, no KDE/Gnome. Then you build from what you have there. If you choose packages wisely you get a really fast system. Usually best to stick with programs with low dependencies(like, no QT in your GTK).

 

Here's my bootup time for my Gateway MT6705



Cheers...

 

Unless that's a funky compiz config you're in the wrong forum buddy.

 

Yea...you're right. Was thinking to take you in...doesn't work.

 

Probably 45~ sec to get to logon screen, and another 20~ or so after I login before I see my Outlook splash screen.

I'll time it the next time I decide to reboot. Who knows how long that will be.

 

You trollin'?

 

HAHA. I didn't realize this was the linux forum. I just saw the thread title. I'm gonna go time my Ubuntu machine.

About 38 secs on a AMD San Diego.

 

I was never able to boot any practically useful Linux distro faster than 40-45 sec (including Arch, Gentoo or Slitaz). Usually it takes around 1 minute or more.

My hard disk yields up to 30MB/s in benchmarks, and the processor is 1.1GHz Pentium M ULV (it's a subnotebook).

Windows XP and 7 boot slightly faster but then the antivirus and spyware scans take even more time before I can actually start working.

The only optimisation I do is the removal of unnecessary startup programs and services (a few other tricks I tried seem to not make any difference).

I haven't learned enough in order to recompile the optimal kernel for my hardware (except a couple of experiments which have not improved the booting times much).

The only really faster booting distro is Tiny Core, but it is of very limited usability: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tinycore

I haven't seriously tried xPUD which also promises very fast booting:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pud

I would be happy with the booting time of 20-30 sec, but those above 45 sec really suck.

 

from the time i select grub to the time everything has been loaded i'd venture to guess it's somewhere between 45 seconds and a minute.

 

Bump ..........

 

I have a new record, Arch Linux x64, Custom kernel(2.6.32-rc5 I believe), LXDE. 6 seconds from grub to LXDE.

 

I counted slowly and my boot time is between 10-14 seconds (was doing a mount check). No special tweaks other than booting to level 5 early on and loading my programs (samba, cups, transmissin, etc) in the background. I use openbox+thunar+slim as my desktop. Having a SSD also help .

 

lol 8seconds Ubuntu 9.04 Intel SSD 80GB G1 T9600 2.8Ghz nuff said?

 

Dam, is it a SSD ?

I'll have to check out LXDE.

BTW, even if I install LXDE, I will boot into GDM login screen, any way around that ?
Say, can I have a text based login screen where I can choose which desktop manager I want to login into ?

 

Nah, it's an old 60 GB 5400RPM drive lol. Yeah you could boot to a text prompt, depends on your distro exactly how, though,