I'm a new FreeBSD player.So you have ported it, already?
Hi there, I have just created an account to respond to this thread. I was never FreeBSD user, however I regularly use Linux, Mac and Windows. I was recently playing with FreeBSD and the first thing that I have noticed was that it takes pretty long to boot it into working console in vanilla system. I was curious if this is normal, then I found this thread. Therefore I'd like to defend mjollnir arguments, that it does matter how long it takes to boot or reboot the OS, at least this is the first thing you notice when you try FreeBSD.Naturally, the number of whom I personally know is much lower of those I pretend to speak for. Friends & family. Collegues. Myself. (...) Most of them start XfCE, Gnome, or KDE desktop environment with no bells & whistles.
Hi there, I have just created an account to respond to this thread. I was never FreeBSD user, however I regularly use Linux, Mac and Windows. I was recently playing with FreeBSD and the first thing that I have noticed was that it takes pretty long to boot it into working console in vanilla system. I was curious if this is normal, then I found this thread. Therefore I'd like to defend mjollnir arguments, that it does matter how long it takes to boot or reboot the OS, at least this is the first thing you notice when you try FreeBSD.
I was recently playing with FreeBSD and the first thing that I have noticed was that it takes pretty long to boot it into working console in vanilla system.
I read on reddit last year, I think, where someone said that and cried 10 seconds was an eternity. It's an example of why I never go to reddit.How long exactly? It shouldn't take more than 10-20 seconds.
Really? How long is "pretty long"?Hi there, I have just created an account to respond to this thread. I was never FreeBSD user, however I regularly use Linux, Mac and Windows. I was recently playing with FreeBSD and the first thing that I have noticed was that it takes pretty long to boot it into working console in vanilla system. I was curious if this is normal, then I found this thread. Therefore I'd like to defend mjollnir arguments, that it does matter how long it takes to boot or reboot the OS, at least this is the first thing you notice when you try FreeBSD.
bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx alwaysoff
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PriorityControl
is set to 2
(DWORD) powercfg -h off
My wife uses Windows for QuickBooks. In the morning she often complains it isn't connected to the internet. I tell her to wait a minute and, sure enough, it eventually connects.my work laptop, which is an i7 with 16GB ram and Windows 10 enterprise, takes 15 minutes before it is even useable.
Using Windows implies a lot of rebooting and reinstalling. RAM decays in windows! WinRamRot?rebooting takes ages as you describe.
How long exactly? It shouldn't take more than 10-20 seconds.
FreeBSD 12.1 takes 10 seconds to boot to text mode login prompt after I have put my hostname into /etc/hosts otherwise sendmail_submit and sendmail_msp_queue start take additional 30 sec, but this is different subject -> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/s-why-do-hostname-and-sendmail-steps-at-boot-take-so-long.44801/Really? How long is "pretty long"?
What's your hardware?
It seems in my case scanning hardware up to USB takes 6 seconds, then USB enumeration takes additional 2 sec, DHCP 1 sec and then starting services just 1 sec. So that hardware enumeration is kind of slow comparing to Linux. Of course one may argue that booting faster is not a top priority, but on other hand if you need to upgrade kernel it is nice to have shortest possible reboot downtime.The slowest part (in my many years of using this OS) is the probing of hardware, especially with exotic setups such as some RAID cards. This could be an area of performance tuning. I find the scanning of the USB bus(es) is very slow.
I agree, especially there on overall complexity, or rather bloat. Still takes just 10-12 sec to boot into desktop and run hundreds of weird services on my slightly older i7-6700 with SATA SSDI think it's just that Windows is really a terrible product. It's overly complex, the UI is inconsistently designed and yes, it works, but not very well in my opinion, at least for normal desktop tasks.
Doesn't Linux run many startup tasks in the background now? So even though you may be looking at a pretty login screen, many of the services are still loading.
Well, define Linux