On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:47:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > You think the average user doesn't care about getting 50% faster boot > > speeds? > > Now, where do you get the 50% faster speedup? I seem to recall > a post on this list which reported much more modest speedups, and > pointed to a Debian wiki page which seems to imply average boot time > improvements were of the order of 4% or or? I don't have the reference > handy, though it was mentioned in a list mail recently. What I did find > was: > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Dash > ehich says 5%, which seems to be in the same ball park. i'd expect the speedup to be conservatively somewhere in the ballpark of 5-15% based on http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/bootcharts.html which for etch saw a 4 seconds saving on a 32 second boot time. i haven't timed my boots so i'm only guessing that it's probably around the same. sean
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