Re: Fast testing

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
>>> Wow. Nice machine. I wish I had one like that. And how long until
>>> the GUI is usable again and you can actually continue working?
>>>
>>> For comparison: my 3.4 GHz Pentium D takes 30 secs for kernel start
>>> (ie. until it begins looking for the filesystems),
>> Including all BIOS routines?
> 
> No - from hitting Enter in the GRUB menu.

That seems really high, unless you're using some storage driver that 
takes a really long time to initialize or something..

> 
>>>  2 mins until the graphical login screen appears, and
>>> 5 mins from logging in to the GUI being completely present.
>> I have an old 366 MHz / 192 MB machine which boots to GUI much faster.
> 
> Might depend on the value of "GUI". Mine wouldn't even load in 192 MB.
> Anyway, my preceding P3/700 MHz/512 MB box hasn't been much worse,
> either.
> 
>> Something's wrong with your setup (unless you start really lots of 
>> things or have some other, "uncommon" things).
> 
> Hmm, it's always been like that. As for "uncommon", this is a more
> or less out of the box openSUSE 10.3 installation. (Without Beagle,
> in case you were wondering.) Perhaps that's what's wrong? :-)
> 
> OTOH, even the GUIless CentOS server boxes I look after for a
> living take about 5 mins until they are up and running again after
> a kernel update - including BIOS, but without the fsck penalty.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tilman
>