FreeBSD Boot Times

[Eitan Adler]

On 13 June 2012 12:55, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:21:29 Ian Lepore wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 09:10 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> > > Greetings,
>> > >
>> > > I was just wondering what it is that FreeBSD does that makes it take so
>> > > long to boot. Booting into Ubuntu minimal or my own custom Linux
>> > > distro, literally takes 0.5-2 seconds to boot up to shell, where
>> > > FreeBSD takes about 10-20 seconds. I'm not sure if anything could be
>> > > parallelized in the boot process,
>> >
>> > mostly kernel time.
>> >
>> > > Note: This isn't really an issue, moreso a curiosity.
>> >
>> > true. system that never crash are not often booted
>>
>> An embedded system may be booted or powered cycled dozens of times a
>> day, and boot time can be VERY important.  Don't assume that the way you
>> use FreeBSD is the only way.
>>
>> -- Ian
>
> Try setting:
>
> sysctl hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1

Can you explain in a bit more detail what this does and why it isn't default?


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Eitan Adler