Annvix boot charts
I’ve put up a few boot charts on the website and compared Annvix boot time to Mandriva’s Corporate Server 4. I don’t mean to pick on CS4, but I think CS4 is pretty decent and pretty quick… and I had it on hand. I may add CentOS 5.1 to the page as well… I do have it installed in vmware.
While the charts themselves are kinda cool to look at, the thing that I think is really cool is the boot times: 12s on a default install and 12s with a half dozen services added and starting. In comparison, CS4 took 26s. These are in vmware, of course, with modest amounts of RAM allocated (although the host system is a mac pro running 2 2.66Ghz dual-core xeons).
Anyways, it’s interesting stuff… if you’re interested in that kind of thing (although, I think for a server OS the boot speed is a pretty minor consideration since it’s not supposed to be booting that often (and if it is, you have other problems)).
