From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19140af19dfa6e01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11174e,acfad2f7f67e34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11174e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-24 09:33:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!82-43-33-75.cable.ubr01.croy.blueyonder.co.UK!not-for-mail From: "Nick Roberts" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,alt.os.development Subject: Re: Time Taken to Boot Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:33:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1127954.kcBZz6amlf@linux1.krischik.com> <3F60E747.40805@attbi.com> <1557617.vUiuI5kIPQ@linux1.krischik.com> <3F6F1A93.50709@attbi.com> <2q30nv4fain641rin9dia3onjr7ut01our@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-43-33-75.cable.ubr01.croy.blueyonder.co.uk (82.43.33.75) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064421215 5489717 82.43.33.75 (16 [25716]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42858 alt.os.development:38692 Date: 2003-09-24T17:33:37+01:00 List-Id: "Maxim S. Shatskih" 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. -- Nick Roberts Jabber: debater@charente.de [ICQ: 159718630]