Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
>> Wow. Nice machine. I wish I had one like that. And how long until
>> the GUI is usable again and you can actually continue working?
>> 
>> For comparison: my 3.4 GHz Pentium D takes 30 secs for kernel start
>> (ie. until it begins looking for the filesystems),
> 
> Including all BIOS routines?

No - from hitting Enter in the GRUB menu.

>>  2 mins until the graphical login screen appears, and
>> 5 mins from logging in to the GUI being completely present.
> 
> I have an old 366 MHz / 192 MB machine which boots to GUI much faster.

Might depend on the value of "GUI". Mine wouldn't even load in 192 MB.
Anyway, my preceding P3/700 MHz/512 MB box hasn't been much worse,
either.

> Something's wrong with your setup (unless you start really lots of 
> things or have some other, "uncommon" things).

Hmm, it's always been like that. As for "uncommon", this is a more
or less out of the box openSUSE 10.3 installation. (Without Beagle,
in case you were wondering.) Perhaps that's what's wrong? :-)

OTOH, even the GUIless CentOS server boxes I look after for a
living take about 5 mins until they are up and running again after
a kernel update - including BIOS, but without the fsck penalty.

Thanks,
Tilman

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