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The progress in boot times has much more to do with SSDs than anything software-related.
by usrnm 6y ago
The progress in boot times has much more to do with SSDs than anything software-related.
- coding123 6y agoNot if you go back far enough. Ultima 8 Pagan, whenever I switched "maps" on my 386 it literally took about a minute to load the next area. When I got my next computer it was a Pentium 100 Mhz. That thing loaded the next map area in about 1-2 seconds. Both of those computers did not use SSDs.
- hedora 6y agoLinux booted faster on my Pentium 100 with a hard disk than with my i7 + SSD. The root cause is that when Linux moved to parallel “fast” boot and DBUS they didn’t add APIs to the kernel to work through all the race conditions around modules loading, etc. So, it has to sleep for a second here or there to let hardware stabilize. I first noticed this about 10 years ago (on a new, faster machine, X would fail to start because the video card kernel module hadn’t finished loading yet). It has gotten worse since. On one machine, I have an NFS mount over WiFi. Network manager wants mount to complete before it runs because they didn’t think before they implemented it. I eventually got that machine to boot, but it takes an extra 5 seconds.