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Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 16:40:45 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: |
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> >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> |
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> > wrote: |
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> >> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> |
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wrote: |
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> >> >> Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently. |
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> >> >> I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working : |
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> >> >> Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt 8 s , |
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> >> >> 'startx' - GUI ready 4 s : total 22 s + entering userid+password ; |
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> >> >> I start the I/net connection (Dhcpcd) manually from the GUI ( 15 s ). |
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> >> >> I assume most of the speed is attributable to the SSD, |
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> >> >> perhaps a bit to the 1600 MHz memory; of course, Gentoo shares the |
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> >> >> honors; |
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> >> >> my desktop manager is Fluxbox & I start apps on desktops manually. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Toshiba Portégé Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memory, and |
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> >> > a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from the |
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> >> > time I enter my password and my GNOME 3 desktop is ready it takes |
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> >> > another 6 seconds, so 18 seconds in total (plus how much it takes for |
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> >> > me to click in my user and enter my password). |
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> >> > Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest is |
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> >> > systemd. |
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> >> Damn, is GNOME fat. I booted to text console (disabled GDM), and I |
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> >> also disabled plymouth. From GRUB2 to login prompt it takes less than |
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> >> 6 seconds, so the really slow part is starting GDM and then switching |
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> >> to GNOME 3. The BIOS is pretty fast, it takes 4 seconds from power on |
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> >> to the GRUB2 menu. |
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> >> The fast part (GRUB2->login prompt) is because of systemd. |
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> > I doubt that, |
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> Install systemd and do the test; I got the numbers to prove it. |
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> systemd is consistently faster than OpenRC (which doesn't even |
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> properly support parallel starting of services), sometimes several |
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> times faster. |
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> Luca Barbato mentioned about a way to make OpenRC use busybox in |
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> reentrant mode; the difference in speed in that case should be less. |
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> However, the fact is that OpenRC doesn't support parallel start of |
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> services; it said so in its own documentation: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391945#c10 |
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> "rc_parallel has never officially been declared a stable feature (see |
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> the comments in rc.conf regarding this)." |
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> So no matter how fast the scripts could execute (which anyway will be |
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> slower than small highly optimized C programs), the lack of proper |
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> parallelization will make OpenRC slower than systemd. |
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> So doubt as much as you want. It doesn't change the fact that (in this |
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> particular issue), you are wrong. |
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and since I use openrc with parallel startup, I just doubt it even more. |
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The place where I lose time is starting of my five md-raids. And that is |
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something not even systemd can speed up. |
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