Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/3] introduce SYS_CLONE_MASK

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-10T00:36:42Z

Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> writes:

> OK. I just got the OK from management. The system we were booting was
> for research only. We had NR_CPUS=num_online_cpus()=4096 which were
> non-hyperthreaded. With no attached I/O and the tweak I originally
> posted plus one change Jack has already gotten accepted, the machine
> booted in approx 12 minutes.

How much of that time was between the time the kernel was loaded
and before user space was started?

Twelve minutes sounds like a long time for a boot, if you aren't fsck'ing
filesystems.

Eric