Jaunty Boots Fast <15sec

I hear a lot of people drooling over how super fast their system boots on Jaunty. I saw one mention on the Planet already about 20.03 seconds being fast. Just after reading this, I decided I need to post mine.

It's less than 15 seconds. Readahead is using up 14seconds of that and I have a feeling I can reduce the readahead time to about 2.5 seconds by just tuning it a little better. Perhaps there's some large files that it's loading which are being counter productive to this process.

I've attached the bootchart image to show how fast it currently boots.

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Submitted by frenkel on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 12:49

You mean <15sec I suppose. The current title means "more than".

Submitted by wolfger on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 13:28

I think every computer I've ever owned has booted in >15s :-)

edit: I take that back... Timex/Sinclair 2000 booted faster. I think the Commodore 64 did too. :-p

Submitted by kiplantt on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 16:49

Have you used a SSD disk? Is your machine special in any way?

Submitted by michael on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 14:18

Ya, I meant Less than, not Greater than...

I actually have a 5,400rpm drive. I would cut about 4sec off boot time with a SSD and about 2sec with a 7,200rpm drive.

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