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Performance measurements for DSL

  1. ran in qemu on my laptop with -cdrom dsl.iso option. It boots in average of 50 seconds.
qemu -cdrom dsl.iso -net nic -net user

BKO from local webserver (my laptop)

  1. It took 1 min 10 seconds for qemu to get in working state
  2. Out of these, first 20 seconds were taken by gpxe itself, in
    1. seting up dhcp
    2. loading initial script
    3. seting up dhcp again (because script asks)
    4. Geting pxeknife up

Command used for this is

$ qemu -fda bin/gpxe.dsk -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -bootp http://192.168.0.2/pxeknife/pxeDHCP.gpxe

BKO on [[rom.etherboot.org]] US

  1. It took total of 28 minutes processing, DSL reached the last stage and crashed :-(
  2. It crashed after showing up following messages.
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Running dsl-4.4.10
Registering unionfs 1.0.14
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
su(pam_unix): session opened for user dsl...
Using xvesa default .......
  1. Next attempt, it booted successfully after taking around 45 minutes.
  2. Out of which first 20 seconds where taken by gpxe and pxeknife (just as above case)

BKO on [[alien.doesntexist.org]] EU

  1. It took total of 11 minutes 30 seconds.
  2. Out of which first 24 seconds where taken by gpxe and pxeknife (just as above case)