I still have my first laptop. It came with W98 at the time, and was specced like this: 450Mhz AMD, 32MB RAM and a 4GB HD. I added 128MB RAM later. This machine was never liked by Linux, but FreeBSD 7.0 felt right at home on the device.
My day to day machine is also a laptop, 2x2.0Ghz (Core2Duo), 1GB RAM and 80GB HD. This one has been running Slackware for years, but it now has FreeBSD 7.2 installed.
Both where build with the X-user profile from the install CD.
Set side by side, if I don't take BIOS into account, the 450Mhz machine reaches textual login a good 10 seconds faster than the 2x2.0Ghz machine. 31 seconds and 42 seconds respectively.
This is not a question. It's just, I can't get my mind around how something that should be eight times slower is actually noticeably faster in terms of boot time.
Obviously once both devices are fully booted, the new machine is much much faster.
My day to day machine is also a laptop, 2x2.0Ghz (Core2Duo), 1GB RAM and 80GB HD. This one has been running Slackware for years, but it now has FreeBSD 7.2 installed.
Both where build with the X-user profile from the install CD.
Set side by side, if I don't take BIOS into account, the 450Mhz machine reaches textual login a good 10 seconds faster than the 2x2.0Ghz machine. 31 seconds and 42 seconds respectively.
This is not a question. It's just, I can't get my mind around how something that should be eight times slower is actually noticeably faster in terms of boot time.
Obviously once both devices are fully booted, the new machine is much much faster.