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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by kevingadd on Friday May 19, 2023 @12:58PM (#36004197)
If you boot OpenBSD thousands of times per day it adds up. I can imagine this being the case for people running big server farms or doing virtualization stuff.
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by daneel_w on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:15PM (#36004422)
These are servers and I reboot them only when necessary. It's a pet peeve, but a big one.
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by ilyt on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:45PM (#36004758)
In my experience time to boot everything else on server far exceeds any OS shenaningans.

I had servers that took up to 5 minutes from start/reboot to GRUB prompt. And they were not some 60 drive monsters but typical dual CPU 1U servers...

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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by trzy on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:24PM (#36004522)
At 7% of 28ms, if you boot it a thousand times per day you get a whopping 2 seconds.
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Re:FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort o... by ilyt on Friday May 19, 2023 @01:41PM (#36004713)
no, if your SATA/SAS stalls for 20s you get 20s
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