slow system startup and shutdown

[gunjankumar]

My system has 8.0(Hubble edition) of PC bsd. Now my system takes a lot of time to startup.
And shutdown is also slower...... i m bit disappointed bcoz even Windows7 takes lesser time than my PcBsd.

[Ralph_Ellis]

In PC-BSD and FreeBSD startup does take longer since kernel modules are loaded at boot time. ZFS boot takes longer than UFS. UFS boot times are similar to Linux and Windows. Keep in mind that FreeBSD systems were designed primarily to be servers and would run for long periods without reboots therefore bootup and shutdown speeds were less of a concern. Unlike Windows, PC-BSD and FreeBSD do not suffer from memory leaks and do not need reboots to get rid of old code sitting in memory.

[thnewguy]

I agree that PC-BSD generally doesn't need to be rebooted, but that doesn't help people using their machines at home who want to power-off at night. My PC-BSD machine is using UFS and I find it takes about two minutes or so for the machine to go from power-on to login screen. My Linux OS, running on the same hardware, takes around twenty seconds.

I'd love to see PC-BSD's boot time cut in half. Recently I tried OpenBSD on the same hardware and found it booted in under a minute. Granted, it starts relatively few services.