From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 01:54:39 MST
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, spike66 wrote:
>Can someone explain to me why, on a 2 GHz computer,
>it *still* takes over a minute to boot? In those
>100 billllllion clock cycles, please someone tell
>me exactly what the hellllll is going on in that
>operating system?
It's not the processor, it's your hard drive that is limiting your boot up
speed. Hard drive latency is still measured in *milliseconds*, which is a
factor of 10^6 slower than any x86 chip on the market.
>human history? Will we eventually see multi-terahertz
>personal computers that still take 2 minutes to boot?
Don't worry, the dual Sun server that we have at work can take in excess
of 10 minutes to boot. But, you only do it once or twice in a year...
Ciao,
Alfio
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