Booting Faster

Booting Faster

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Premature optimization is the root of all evil

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Premature optimization is the root of all evil

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Premature optimization is the root of all evil
  3. 3 Booting is a feature
  4. 4 login
  5. 5 Before the OS: Petitboot
  6. 6 Step 1: Use tricks of the distros
  7. 7 Step 2: "Faster" hardware?
  8. 8 quiet kernel = many seconds of boot saved
  9. 9 [ 4.899386] Run /init as init process
  10. 10 2.5 seconds for unxz initramfs!
  11. 11 3 = 17
  12. 12 MB / 1.75MB/sec = 9.14 seconds
  13. 13 PCI?
  14. 14 What about BIG systems?
  15. 15 Hostboot does on-demand paging...
  16. 16 Thrashing before there's RAM!
  17. 17 We read firmware from Flash via a daemon on the BMC
  18. 18 SBE = "20 second black hole"
  19. 19 How long do other computers take?
  20. 20 VGA
  21. 21 Boot progress on discreet graphics card
  22. 22 Fast Reboot

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