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From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Application launch time
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Date: 30 Jan 89 19:59:03 GMT
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In article <7554@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>A similar question is why does it take so long for the NeXT to boot?  I
>timed it... it takes exactly 5 minutes and 10 seconds and I doubt much
>of that was fsck time although I could be wrong...

It's mostly fsck time.  If you get into the ROM monitor, you can give the "p"
command and turn on verbose booting, so it says the same stuff while booting
that any other Unix system does.  (The spinning disk is cute, but not very
informative.)  It seems usually to assume that the disk might be dirty, and
so does a full fsck.  If I shut down with /etc/halt, it usually but not
invariably will skip the long fsck and boots a lot faster.
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