Boot Process Visualization

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 15, 2004 @06:51AM from the what-in-what-order dept.

zigam writes "The time needed to boot desktop Linux systems is becoming an issue. That's why I recently took the challenge posted by Red Hat's Owen Taylor on the Fedora developers list and came up with a tool for visualization of the boot process. It collects performance data during the boot up and then renders an SVG or PNG performance chart. It immediately helped Red Hat developers solve some issues and I have since received boot charts from other GNU/Linux developers as well. Solaris kernel developers reported success in improving their boot process too." Update: 12/15 20:04 GMT by T : Sorry, someone decided your time was worth wasting; no more mirrored bootchart.

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Re:Reboot visualization by which+way+is+up · 2004-12-15 06:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I love it so much better when they go down sloooowwww. Oh yeah baby take your time...

Oh, wait, are we talking about the same thing here?
heh by minus_273 · 2004-12-15 06:56 · Score: 5, Funny

in case it is slashdotted here is a mirror of the chart.

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Re:IIS? by Ingolfke · 2004-12-15 07:01 · Score: 5, Funny

He was, but his Linux box just took so long to boot it wasn't worth the effort.