Comments on: Five-second boot time demonstrated, sent to Moblin project

By: SiteCharts

SiteCharts — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:30:00 +0000

Fast booting is good.
I don’t understand why people are trolling and keep talking about how unnecessary it is blablabla sleep blablabla hibernate.
Lasy I checked it takes MUCH MUCH longer to sleep and/or hibernate than 5 seconds.
I take booting in 5 seconds any day over sleep and hibernate.

By: zorg

zorg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:11:04 +0000

You’re not in the minority on this. Whenever I google for info about how to do fast booting, results are clogged with irrelevant comments from people insisting that we somehow don’t need fast boot because the commenter rarely boots.

They often patiently explain that a thing called sleep or hibernation exists. I don’t even think they’re intentionally trolling. It’s just the natural reaction of someone so completely self-centered that they can not imagine situations outside their daily experiences.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:53:47 +0000

Jonathan, I agree but I don't foresee 5-second boots in a full computing environment in the very near future. That's why I'm sticking with Sleep and Resume for now. There's a definite battery drain on devices when sleeping since the RAM requires a small amount of power to keep the environment retained, so your point is well taken.

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:47:38 +0000

With a 5 second boot time, I'd be much more likely to shut down over sleep which would save some power over the course of the day.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:24:22 +0000

5 seconds is 4.8 seconds too many for regular use, but that’s *very* good for a device reset time.

I’d still want to stick with sleep/hibernate in most cases no matter what, but when you’ve got to reboot the system due to a firmware upgrade, some massively horked software, or a kernel panic, 5 seconds is pretty damned tolerable.