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Are the post times modifiable? I'm using a Dell E7440 and it's pretty quick to boot from powered off. I have a bunch of stuff turned off in the bios. It's my m
by DanBC 7y ago
Are the post times modifiable?
I'm using a Dell E7440 and it's pretty quick to boot from powered off. I have a bunch of stuff turned off in the bios. It's my machine on my home network, it's not a corporate machine with all the corporate stuff.
But maybe that's the lever we need to get change: 30 seconds extra for 1000 people over 250 working days a year is over 2000 person hours being spent waiting for machines to boot.
And that wait time for the corporate stuff is something that real people talk about. Here are a few twitter threads about people in different NHS organisations.
Some people are waiting 3 to 10 minutes, a few are waiting even longer(!!) https://twitter.com/griffglen/status/1066043840497360897?s=20 https://twitter.com/griffglen/status/1066043840497360897?s=2...
https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1038329028623716358?s=20 https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1038329028623716358?s...
https://twitter.com/dannyjpalmer/status/1123604293251158016?s=20 https://twitter.com/dannyjpalmer/status/1123604293251158016?...
- kabdib 7y agoFor database servers with multiple TB of RAM, 10-15 minutes is not unusual for POST. It's nuts. The memory was fine the last time it was tested (30 minutes ago, on the last reboot). Let's just train some buses, probe some address spaces and go, okay?