Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: [CM] Coding with dad on the Dragon 32 Date: 9 Nov 2015 16:24:00 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <877flrwsa6.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <877flrwsa6.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <877flrwsa6.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GK+mzEMjBDjXNg20s+vCwQ39aE2+BZ6POC9Z4CR/yvWJhvSz1B Cancel-Lock: sha1:jY7fL41dvKM4MwnUTvPW1T8vT1Q= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:9430 alt.folklore.computers:154219 On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 14:13:41 +0000, jmfbahciv wrote: > Morten Reistad wrote: >> In article <877flrwsa6.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net>, >> Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>>RS Wood : >>> >>>> (That said, I /do/ wish boot times were 0.5 seconds again). >>> >>>I don't know. Who boots a computer nowadays? >> >> I do, the ones I develop on. And they are up within a minute, >> all of them. With all subsystems like apache, mysql etc. >> >> The laptops come out of hibernation usually as fast as I can open the >> lid, but sometimes there is a ~2s delay, which may be some swapping >> taking place. >> >> The annoying bit is the dhcp stuff for ipv4, which takes around 10 >> seconds. ipv6 is up within a second. >> >> I contrast this with the minis at various PPOEs, which all took around >> 30 minutes to come up completely. > > That's (30 minutes boot-up) is horrid. DEC would consider that a bug. > Note that none of the OS developers would wait that long for a restart > so they would work on getting a system up quickly. Never booted VMS off a DECtape II then? :) -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org