From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] dynamic loading, was "Ugly Q, I admit" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021127235912.M29046-100000@fbsd.acl.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:05:36 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29d1b40e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > Actually there is some step in plan 9 that makes my PCs take forever to > boot. Don't know what it is. But they don't typically boot faster than > Linux for me. > i can't speak for anything that i don't have, but my p9 installation boots on par with freebsd (~34 seconds, freebsd does not have the 10 second delay before bootstrapping the kernel) to fully functional network-enabled node (including X). if i had a file server p9 would boot even faster. the only difference is that i log into p9, while freebds just prompts me for one... i strongly believe that boot time is only essential with terminals (which do get to be rebooted more often) and that with LinuxBIOS-enabled kernel it won't be hard at all to get the boot time down to linux levels on a reasonable hardware. i plan to prove myself wrong someday :) andrey ps: your p9 machine isn't trying to dhcp itself in the presence of no dhcp servers?