Re: Time Taken to Boot

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>]

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
news:bksdr3$2vhi$3@gavrilo.mtu.ru...

> ...
> XP is rather fast. The main time spent is to start the service
> daemon executables.

That's interesting. I have no experience of booting XP, but I have observed
booting NT 4 from a network take more than 100 seconds. I cannot say whether
it was the particular network or configuration that was causing a special
delay (it was a part of the British government's huge 'corporate' intranet).

> Only a minority need the complex init paths - IDE, for instance,
> due to compatibility with some obsolete CD drives.

I know some CD drives can take ages to intialise. I think the clear solution
is to have the CD driver (including its initialisation routine) execute in
parallel with the rest of the boot procedure. Of course, this won't help if
you are booting /from/ a CD!

> > If the user can shutdown and reboot quickly ...

> This is how hibernate works.

Yes, I thought I had read about the scheme I described, somewhere (but I
don't remember where), a long time ago. I guess that's it. It seems fairly
obvious.

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Nick Roberts
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