Canonical Once Again Aiming To Improve Ubuntu's Boot Speed

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Once Again Aiming To Improve Ubuntu's Boot Speed

Nearly a decade ago Canonical/Ubuntu developers had a goal of a 10 second boot time. They made good on that for their netbook focus at the time, but in the years since their boot time has slowed down and we haven't seen any concerted effort on improving their boot speed again...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-18.04-Might-Boot-Faster

[kaprikawn]

'I never reboot my system so why should I care and I also hate systemd...' incoming in 3...2...1...

[perpetually high]

I'm on 17.10 and they've kept true to their promise. Though I of course welcome more improvement.

$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 6.942s (kernel) + 2.112s (userspace) = 9.054s

[caligula]

'I never reboot my system so why should I care and I also hate systemd...' incoming in 3...2...1...

= "I have a shiny new machine and I want all poor people and those who don't care about upgrading every year to suffer as much as possible."

[dh04000]

= "I have a shiny new machine and I want all poor people and those who don't care about upgrading every year to suffer as much as possible."

I want to build a new machine, but those gpu prices and ram prices have screwed that idea..... f*** cryptominers ruining hardware prices!

[QwertyChouskie]

qwerty@qwerty-Inspiron-3520:~$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 3.552s (firmware) + 11.844s (loader) + 11.026s (kernel) + 20min 26.784s (userspace) = 20min 53.207s

I'm on 17.10 and they've kept true to their promise. Though I of course welcome more improvement.

$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 6.942s (kernel) + 2.112s (userspace) = 9.054s

LOL, on my system:

$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 3.552s (firmware) + 11.844s (loader) + 11.026s (kernel) + 20min 26.784s (userspace) = 20min 53.207s

[DIRT]

Other ubuntu flavors seem to boot reasonably fast since they are mostly Debian. Xubuntu on my phenom II 945 with an ssd boots to the login screen 4 seconds after the bios. Not bad for a 10 year old machine. Hdd light stays solid during boot, not sure how they plan on improving that.

[Templar82]

This is something that Linux really should excel at, even windows boots pretty fast these days (on shiny new machines).

[perpetually high]

I just want them to leave my Intel microcode alone. They're reverting everyone back to 7/7/2017 today. Looks like I'm going to have to do a:
sudo apt-mark hold intel-microcode

To keep the mitigated microcode from 1/8/2018

apt-cache show intel-microcode
Version: 3.20180108.0+really20170707ubuntu17.10.1
Version: 3.20180108.0~ubuntu17.10.1
Version: 3.20170707.1

Noticed that too. Side note, do you know if today's kernel update (4.13.0-31) contains retpoline support? I'm not seeing it in the changelog but thought they mentioned that was being released today.

[dungeon]

'I never reboot my system so why should I care and I also hate systemd...' incoming in 3...2...1...

You don't need to do it, just install newest Intel microcode, these have unintended sudden reboot feature implemented