Posted: Fri 01 Mar 2013, 19:38
Since I have frugal installs of both the latest Racy and Quirky on this old Athlon XP box I did a little very unscientific comparison of boot time and ram usage at idle.
Boot time is the average of 3 boots of each version from selection in grub to a full desktop.
Quirky
boot 23 seconds average
Racy
boot 19 seconds average
Quirky still has the annoying habit of not booting about 1 time out of 3...... when grub finds the kernel all activity stops necessitating a hard reboot.
Boot time is the average of 3 boots of each version from selection in grub to a full desktop.
Quirky
boot 23 seconds average
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# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1033472 551252 482220 0 46112
-/+ buffers: 505140 528332
Swap: 1228936 0 1228936
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boot 19 seconds average
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# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1033996 166452 867544 0 19424
-/+ buffers: 147028 886968
Swap: 1228936 0 1228936
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