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Performance measurements for DSL
- 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)
- It took 1 min 10 seconds for qemu to get in working state
- Out of these, first 20 seconds were taken by gpxe itself, in
- seting up dhcp
- loading initial script
- seting up dhcp again (because script asks)
- 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
- It took total of 28 minutes processing, DSL reached the last stage and crashed
- It crashed after showing up following messages.
... ... ... 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 .......
- Next attempt, it booted successfully after taking around 45 minutes.
- Out of which first 20 seconds where taken by gpxe and pxeknife (just as above case)
BKO on [[alien.doesntexist.org]] EU
- It took total of 11 minutes 30 seconds.
- Out of which first 24 seconds where taken by gpxe and pxeknife (just as above case)