On 09/15/2011 05:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > In general, there are other factors coming into play, such as parallel > startup using more memory, parallelization not providing many advantages > on systems with a small number of CPU cores, hard synchronisation points > in the bootup process, poorly configured "services", ... and finally ... > bugs. > > Anyway, some more figures: On the same machine, bootup times when > booting from a (slow) external (IDE) USB2 HD: > - Fedora 15/i386: ca. 135 secs. > - Ubuntu 11.04/i386: ca. 70 secs. > > [Here bootup time: Wirst watch measured time from "grub prompt" to > "login screen"] > > It shows the effect of slow disks (60secs w/ internal HD vs. 2.15 > minutes w/ USB HD), but raises questions on why Ubuntu appears to be so > much faster in this configuration. Could you run systemd-analyze plot > bootup.svg and post it somewhere online Thanks JBG -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel