The rotating swirlie ('-/|\') in the loader accounts for a surprisingly large part of our boot time on systems with slow-ish serial consoles. I think right now it takes a step for each 512 byte read, reducing that to once every 64kB or even 1MB would be an improvement with the kind of kernel sizes we have today. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sun Dec 14 2014 - 09:40:17 UTC
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