How fast is Puppy Linux?
- JamesTheAwesomeDude
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How fast is Puppy Linux?
Hey, I just thought it might be interesting to see how fast Puppy boots up for everybody. Please include as many details as you can think of.
Start your stopwatch as soon as the BIOS (+grub) finish loading, and stop it as soon as the desktop is completely loaded (Wallpaper, taskbar, icons.)
I'll start:
Boot Time: 46 seconds.
Version: Slacko 5.4.
Installation type - Frugal, with 2 GB Heavily encrypted save.
RAM: 3 GB of RAM (+2 GB Swap on an internal HD.)
Processor: 3 GHz Pentium 4, multithreaded.
Boot Device: 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (SanDisk Cruzer Edge.)
SFS's: 1 (Gimp)
Start your stopwatch as soon as the BIOS (+grub) finish loading, and stop it as soon as the desktop is completely loaded (Wallpaper, taskbar, icons.)
I'll start:
Boot Time: 46 seconds.
Version: Slacko 5.4.
Installation type - Frugal, with 2 GB Heavily encrypted save.
RAM: 3 GB of RAM (+2 GB Swap on an internal HD.)
Processor: 3 GHz Pentium 4, multithreaded.
Boot Device: 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive (SanDisk Cruzer Edge.)
SFS's: 1 (Gimp)
Last edited by JamesTheAwesomeDude on Sat 23 Feb 2013, 06:24, edited 1 time in total.
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- plankenstein
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It would be helpful to know whether it is a full vs. frugal install, hard drive installation vs. USB boot vs. CD/DVD.
HP Pavilion Mini Pentium 1.7 GHz Dual Core 12 GB RAM 120 GB SSD Linux Lite 3.8 64-bit w/ Kensington Slimblade Trackball
Bionic8.0 Xenial64 Tahr64 USB frugal install
Samsung Chromebook Plus
LG V20 LG Xpression Plus Huawei Ascend XT2
Bionic8.0 Xenial64 Tahr64 USB frugal install
Samsung Chromebook Plus
LG V20 LG Xpression Plus Huawei Ascend XT2
- JamesTheAwesomeDude
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I recommend doing the "feel good" one - it's actually more accurate for testing OS speed. As soon as the BIOS finishes, and the Grub screen (if you have one) is over, start your stopwatch. E.G., I have a bootable USB stick. I boot up, press F12, arrow down to "USB Device", then press enter and start the timer at the same time.jakfish wrote:Are we working with the "true" boot time, meaning when you push the power button? Or are we doing the "feel good" one, from grub or the puppy menu?
Jake
If you use another timing system - for example, starting the timer when you press power, mention that in the post.
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Yes, the 'feel good' is the only way to do a comparison between different machines -since the BIOS load-times will vary greatly from one box to another.
@plankenstein, KISS is not really ready fro prime-time as I have never yet built an installer. There are packages and sources here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/amigolinux/distro/kiss-4.0/
if you know how to shoe-horn them into a partition....
Hint, the 'tpkg' package format is actually just tar.xz archives.
@plankenstein, KISS is not really ready fro prime-time as I have never yet built an installer. There are packages and sources here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/amigolinux/distro/kiss-4.0/
if you know how to shoe-horn them into a partition....
Hint, the 'tpkg' package format is actually just tar.xz archives.
Boot time: 17 seconds
CPU: AMD FX 8320
RAM: 8GB
OS: PupRescue Precise (5.4.3)
Boot time: 23 seconds
CPU: I-5 Quad Core
RAM: 3GB
OS: PupRescue Precise (5.4.3)
CPU: AMD FX 8320
RAM: 8GB
OS: PupRescue Precise (5.4.3)
Boot time: 23 seconds
CPU: I-5 Quad Core
RAM: 3GB
OS: PupRescue Precise (5.4.3)
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Newer Puppy kernels have the printk.time=1 boot parameter compiled into the kernel and a
shows [ 36.894621] seconds . The bootkernel.log file gets written by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . If I add xwin i am approximately at roundabout 1 minute since I added a test for to become lesser than 3 or otherwise sleep 2 seconds as and a test for
the programs that are loading additional drivers to finish .
I am running
a Core2 @ 2.6 GHz, using the cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq drivers compiled as modules managed by the standard Puppy CPU Frequency Scaling Interface /usr/local/cpu-freq/cpu_freq , that uses a range from 1,6-2,6 GHz . RAM=4GB , PUPMODE=2(full install) .
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tail -n1 /tmp/bootkernel.log
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cat /proc/loadavg
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until [ "`cat /proc/loadavg | cut -f 1 -d '.'`" -lt '3' ];do echo -ne "\rWaiting for load average to drop below 3 :`cat /proc/loadavg` ";sleep 2s;done;echo ###+++2011-11-30
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while [ "`pidof rc.services`" ] ; do echo -n '.. ' ; sleep 2 ; done ; echo
while [ "`pidof pup_event_backend_modprobe`" ] ; do echo -n '.. ' ; sleep 2 ; done ; echo
I am running
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lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Lupu 528-005 frugal on NTFS HD with 630MB save file
took 45 seconds. Most of the time it spent with drivers.
I am experimenting with using no save file so that is adding to the boot time.
If one already have set up a save file then the boot goes faster
the script says So I will test with both to see the difference
frugal on HD with Slacko and Lupu and HP AMD dual core
bought some 3 years ago?
took 45 seconds. Most of the time it spent with drivers.
I am experimenting with using no save file so that is adding to the boot time.
If one already have set up a save file then the boot goes faster
the script says So I will test with both to see the difference
frugal on HD with Slacko and Lupu and HP AMD dual core
bought some 3 years ago?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
not an ideal solution though
not bad for an ex-Win98 machine
Wary 5.1.4.1 frugal
333 Mhz Pentium 2 laptop, 192 M ram, 512 M savefile
"feel good" boot time: 45 secs
333 Mhz Pentium 2 laptop, 192 M ram, 512 M savefile
"feel good" boot time: 45 secs
Good idea for a topic! My data:
1.6GHz VIA Nano processor, 3 G ram
frugal HD installs in a Linux partition
Puppy 431 30 s
Precise 5.5 50 s
Windows XP awake from hibernation 14 s
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In menu.lst I try to avoid searching, for example
So why does "Searching for Puppy files" still take Precise 8 s? (2 s in 431)
And why does Precise stay on black screen for over 15 s after "Starting X"?
1.6GHz VIA Nano processor, 3 G ram
frugal HD installs in a Linux partition
Puppy 431 30 s
Precise 5.5 50 s
Windows XP awake from hibernation 14 s
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In menu.lst I try to avoid searching, for example
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kernel (hd0,2)/Precise/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd pdev1=sda3 psubdir=Precise
And why does Precise stay on black screen for over 15 s after "Starting X"?
Last edited by Wognath on Thu 14 Mar 2013, 18:07, edited 1 time in total.
Code change in initrd.gz . Helped me out in a special case i cannot remember right now anymore, where Puppy-4.3.1 failed to boot.So why does "Searching for Puppy files" still take Precise 8 s? (2 s in 431)
Some sleep delay was added i think for slow USB external drives
and probably by default now searches all detected partitions despite the entries in the kernel line. Try to boot without any psubdir and pdev1 entries if that makes a difference.
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Oh what the fudge I'll join in..
Pentium 3 1GHz, 512MB ram , sexy owner.
Times from grub....
Slax 6 , Xfce4, 25 modules................70s
Pup 202.....................................................22s
Pup 212......................................................22s
Pup 412......................................................33s
Lucid ...........................................................35s
NT4...............................................................26s
2000.............................................................40s
XP....................................................................42s
Slax with 25 modules.
Puppies to ram...all have older xfce4.
Note the pups have been furkled to drop boot time ~ 30% and Lucid by ~50% above standard...always room for improvement
there ya go
Test time to copy a pile of files in rox for puppies 1,2,4 and 5...it may shock you
mike
Pentium 3 1GHz, 512MB ram , sexy owner.
Times from grub....
Slax 6 , Xfce4, 25 modules................70s
Pup 202.....................................................22s
Pup 212......................................................22s
Pup 412......................................................33s
Lucid ...........................................................35s
NT4...............................................................26s
2000.............................................................40s
XP....................................................................42s
Slax with 25 modules.
Puppies to ram...all have older xfce4.
Note the pups have been furkled to drop boot time ~ 30% and Lucid by ~50% above standard...always room for improvement
there ya go
Test time to copy a pile of files in rox for puppies 1,2,4 and 5...it may shock you
mike
No discussion of Puppy's "speed" should overlook how fast Puppy is when SHUTTING DOWN! I have used several different Puppies, from 4.1.2 to Slacko 5.6, all frugal installations, and every one has shut down and powered off in less than 10 seconds.
By comparison, it is not unusual for my WinXP machine to take over 3 minutes to shut down.
By comparison, it is not unusual for my WinXP machine to take over 3 minutes to shut down.