How fast is Puppy Linux?

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Wognath
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#16 Post by Wognath »

Try to boot without any psubdir and pdev1 entries if that makes a difference.
Thanks, Karl. When I remove all the "p*=" from the kernel line, the Precise boot time decreases by 10s despite a new ~5s delay for "Hibernated NTFS partition: cannot mount".

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#17 Post by steadyaswego »

p4 2800 < 1 G ram

25 seconds

wary 5.3 HD full install :

standard frame buffer console gives nice swap between
terminals with ctrl + alt + Fx
and terminal text displays when starting / shutting down

other frame buffer consoles give me black screens when starting up / shutting down

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#18 Post by asparuh13 »

around 52 seconds :33...better than my win xp

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#19 Post by mikeb »

Oh what the fudge I'll join in.. :D

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

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#20 Post by 6502coder »

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.

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#21 Post by mikeb »

shutting down.....

all around he 5-10 seconds mark...except NT4... thats an unreal 3 seconds.

If XP is slow to shut down stuck windows updates seem to be the most common cause.... another reason to disable it... my XP is 5-10 seconds like the others.

mike

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#22 Post by d4p »

Multi ISO booting USB 2.0 and testing from the same machine.
I think the test is fair enough.
XP is not for comparison, except all are full clean install.
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#23 Post by RetroTechGuy »

6502coder wrote: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.
My shutdown on this laptop tends to be slow -- but I'm loading from a SD card in the side (and write speeds are not blistering on that).
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#24 Post by d4p »

So far the fastest puppy linux with kernel 3.10.1 booting time in 18 seconds.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/puppyru ... o/download

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#25 Post by Atle »

14.68 seconds

FatDog64 630rc1
Frugal
Intel® Core™ i5 2430M/2410M Processor
4 gig ram
ASUS U36SD

One might believe I either cheat to "win" here, but I dont. Neither do I have SSD. In a comment to James Bond, the main dev of FatDog64, I thanked him for saving me the investment of a SSD.

Going from other distro to FatDog64 felt like the days I had a SSD actually.

Anyhow. What is the difference of speed from normal installation to compared to frugal?

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#26 Post by veronicathecow »

Hi All frugal installs on SSD.Asus M4A78LT-M LE AMD 760G Socket AM3 3Ghz quad core Integrated ATI Radeon 3000 8 Gb RAM
Precise 17
Carolina 18
Carolina light 17
PclinuxOS 10
Windows Infinity, it's never gonna boot cause it aint never going on there!

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#27 Post by ThoriumBlvd »

Slacko-5.5XL, USB Flash, Atom N270, 1Gb RAM
Power Button ----> Desktop = 85 sec.
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#28 Post by Wognath »

Anyhow. What is the difference of speed from normal installation to compared to frugal?
In my case (Wary 5.5 on HD) Full 30s, Frugal 31s grub-to-desktop :?

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#29 Post by NickAu »



Boot time 19 seconds

2x Intel(R)Core(tm)CPU 6320@ 1.86 ghz

1 gig ram

Retro Precise 5.7.1 "Fatty"(boom-boom!)Full Install to Hard drive.

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Boot time of Fatdog64

#30 Post by neerajkolte »

cpu: intel i3
ram: 6gb
os: Fatdog64-630 final
installed media: 1gb old usb stick
install type: small intrid
savefile location: harddrive
Boot Time: 11s

I am new to Linux. I just installed fatdog because I had one old usb stick laying around. At first it used to take around 40s to boot, I asked in fatdog thread under puppy project section of forum. I immidiately got replies from fellow fatdog users to make fresh install And select small intrid.
And voila My system now boots in 11s.
This includes wait 5sec for dev.
I was so impressed that I went and bragged to my friends using XP and now my 2 friends have started using fatdog.
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Re: How fast is Puppy Linux?

#31 Post by rufwoof »

Boot Time: 40 seconds from start of ...vmlinux to GUI displayed

Version: Slacko 5.5 (PAE).
Installation type - Frugal, with 248MB unencrypted save.
RAM: 1.5 GB of RAM
Processor: AMD64 3500
Boot Device: DVD

SFS's:

devx_slacko_5.5
kernel_sources_3.4.17_slacko_PAE
virtualbox-4.3.4
openshot-1.4.3-slacko

PET's
at76c50x-usb-firmware (for Belkin wireless adapter)
nvidia_latest-304.64-3.4.17-PAE
PupsaveHotBackup-1.3
ffmpeg_vidcap-0.4

Takes a further 22 seconds to start VirtualBox and load up Windows XP from saved state.http://youtu.be/THhUmr5iZWc

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#32 Post by jp734 »

Boot Time: 33.65 seconds (from the moment I hit return on grub menu to GUI desktop)
Version: Precise 5.7.1
Processor: Pentium M 1.5GHz
Laptop: IBM Thinkpad X41
RAM: 1GB
Boot Device: ATA Elite Pro Compact Flash card (using CFcard to IDE adapter)
Personal File: 1.2GB Unencrypted 4fs
SFS: LibreOffice 4.2

Not bad for a dino pc??? Considering I'm using a ghetto solid state drive...LOL :D

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