Yeah, 12-second boot time!

[SteveRiley]

Mmm, goodness. Kernel boots directly via UEFI and my user automatically logs in. This is my ThinkPad X1 with a 128GB SSD. Sweeeeeeet.

[vinnywright]

:-P show off ,,,,,,,
we bow to your Majesty

just kidding thats sweeeeeeeet

VINNY

[dmeyer]

@SteveRiley Go onto the Arch forums and tell them how fast you boot! If they don't flood your thread with their own charts and giving you thousands of recommendations to get to their 4s boots then I will start addressing you by which ever name/title you want.

Still that's not a bad time at all. I boot faster than you, but logging in on my PC takes forever (like 5s).

[james147]

Getting a similar time to you boot up takes basically no time at all, but login takes a little bit longer but mine is somewhere under 20 seconds (I haven't actually timed it yet) from grub to desktop. Haven't really tuned the os boot times yet either also running on an 128 SSD

[oshunluvr]

I wonder if you complied your kernel for that laptop if you'd gain much.

[dmeyer]

I wonder if you complied your kernel for that laptop if you'd gain much.

I've done it before. Essentially no difference to a stock kernel. Stick wih the stock kernel, it has been patched and optimized to be as good as it can be in most use cases plus its just less hassle.

[oshunluvr]

I've done it before too and I saw a huge gain in boot time. However, this was on a desktop machine and was many moons ago back in the days when the 2.6 series kernels were brand new. I removed all the unneeded sound card, file systems, modem, network support among many other items. Added in loadable modules so they installed immediately rather than waiting to be called, and so on.

I don't recall the exact time table change, but it was noticably faster to boot - on the order of 30-40% faster. Of course, the week or so I spent getting it right wasn't recovered in boot-seconds

Besides, hassle is not the issue as I suggested Steve do it, not me!

Seriously, as often as they update the kernels these days you be re-compiling it every week. I'm going to leave that for the Arch folks.

[GreyGeek]

That's nothing. I started using my computer in 0 seconds this morning. (I forgot to turn it off last night! )

The practice stopped when laptops became common, but before then it was not uncommon to leave your computer up 24/365, partly to get the highest "uptime" you could. That was during the uptime wars. Linux users were regularly clocking uptimes of well over 300 days, some beyond 400 days. My SuSE PostgreSQL sever at work was up for a total of 465 days before I brought it down. Win95 users were claiming similar and even greater uptimes, until Microsoft announced the 49.7 day clock bug, which caused an automatic reboot if the computer clock cycled at 49..7 days.!

12 seconds? It takes me that long to enter my password!

[dibl]

Once you've booted on an SSD, it's pretty painful to wait for a hard drive to finish loading everything and get around to starting X. My 3-year old Toshiba NB205 netbook with a 2-year old OCZ Vertex 2 hits the 15 second mark, even running bluetooth and other stuff that I don't use. This big desktop rig boots a not-very-fast Kingston SSD which brings up the rest of the system on an OCZ Revodrive SSD (my Asus BIOS doesn't see the Revodrive as a bootable device ...). But there are hard drives that have to be brought up too, so the whole process of getting to X takes around 20 seconds or a little more.

[oshunluvr]

20 seconds of yelling "Hurry Up!" LOL... We are the microwave generation!

Seriously: My netbook goes off-to-desktop in about 16 secs. and desktop-to-off in 5 or so. My desktop takes much longer, but it's a compilcated beast and is rarely re-booted.

[bweinel]

When you start to feel bad about your kubuntu boot time... go boot up a Windows XP system. You'll feel much better.

cheers,
Bill

[oshunluvr]

When you start to feel bad about your kubuntu boot time... go boot up a Windows XP system. You'll feel much better.

cheers,
Bill

Yeah - no kidding! My Dell laptop at work must take 3-4 minutes to get to the log in and then another 1-2 minutes to load thhe desktop. I usually go get a cup of coffee while all that's going on.

[james147]

The practice stopped when laptops became common, but before then it was not uncommon to leave your computer up 24/365, partly to get the highest "uptime" you could. That was during the uptime wars. Linux users were regularly clocking uptimes of well over 300 days, some beyond 400 days. My SuSE PostgreSQL sever at work was up for a total of 465 days before I brought it down. Win95 users were claiming similar and even greater uptimes, until Microsoft announced the 49.7 day clock bug, which caused an automatic reboot if the computer clock cycled at 49..7 days.!

Your not going to beet the voyage 1 uptime its uptime passed the 30 year mark quite a few years ago

[whatthefunk]

When you start to feel bad about your kubuntu boot time... go boot up a Windows XP system. You'll feel much better.

cheers,
Bill

I was at my parents for the holidays and they have an old Dell running Win XP. Id turn it on before breakfast and if I was lucky it would be ready to use by the time I was finished.

My boot time on my Kubuntu machine with a 60 GB SSD is 17 sec. Pretty good I think. Might tweak it a bit when I have free time.

[dibl]

Your not going to beet the voyage 1 uptime its uptime passed the 30 year mark quite a few years ago

Not many security patches on THAT kernel, huh ;-)