Boot Process Visualization

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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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nice by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-15 06:53 · Score: -1, Troll

server?
Unreal. by Naikrovek · 2004-12-15 06:53 · Score: -1, Troll

ZERO comments and the site is Slashdotted.

Yay.
Heh, hosting Linux materials by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-15 06:53 · Score: -1, Troll

on a windows server (403.9! woot!) BRILLIANT!
it's up by krautcanman · 2004-12-15 06:55 · Score: 0, Troll

IIS... HAhahahaha!!!!!11111oneoneoneone

at least it's up
Mod FAILURE Down!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-15 06:57 · Score: -1, Troll

May your karma rot in -1 hell forever!!
Re:heh by RealAlaskan · 2004-12-15 07:09 · Score: -1, Troll

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

And:
Windows ===========
BSOD
Windows ===========
BSOD
Windows ===========
BSOD
Windows ===========
BSOD
Windows ===========
BSOD
Windows ===========
BSOD
.........

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See what I've been reading.
Totally original idea by Ingolfke · 2004-12-15 07:14 · Score: 0, Troll

D00d, I've already imagined a liquid cooled beowulf cluster of these and it was SWEET!

By karma, it was nice to know you.
Re:an issue is it??? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-15 08:14 · Score: -1, Troll

Man you are so cool because you keep your computer up. Your e-penis must be huge!

Shutup jackass, some people need to shut down their computers, and some people use windows.
Re:Hahahah by klipsch_gmx · 2004-12-15 08:21 · Score: 0, Troll

For those of us who weren't reloading /. every 30 seconds during the few minutes it was up, could you maybe post a link to what used to be there? :)

We will be adding a detailed account of this egregious offense in the Jihad injustices section later today. Stay tuned.
Re:an issue is it??? by pclminion · 2004-12-15 10:24 · Score: 1, Troll

When your switching power supply starts breaking motherboards by turning it off and on every goddamn day, tell that to the recycling plant that you will never use.
Quit perpetuating this stupid myth. Read.