Re: Boot Time - Wow

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The time difference is from Power up to shell, then after
waitforPendingevents, to when the application actually loads.

I'll do some additional testing later and let you know what I find. I will
be preoccupied until next week. Thanks for the advice.

Richard



"Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eLiGiYa5FHA.552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Richard,
>
> Like I said if you doubt on EWF then you can disable it and see that it is
> probably not a problem.
>
> What can be a problem is another issue on which I have no idea since I
> never saw it. FS has some load time different depending on
> partition size size certain tables are bigger, but we would talk here in
> order of miliseconds and not on magnitude of 40 seconds
> difference, so I'm preaty clueless.
>
> Can you tell us if this time problem ocurs during the splash screen phase
> or before.
>
> Splash screen phase go trough drivers and phase before is small load done
> by ntldr trough BIOS int 13 function.
>
> Regards,
> Slobodan
>
> "Richard" <Richard dot skinner at compressor-systems.com> wrote in message
> news:%23OSx1AX5FHA.2552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I think I worded by issue incorrectly.
>>
>> I use EWF Ram Registry all the time. Booting from the same image and the
>> same CF Card. If the 256 mb CF has he entire drive formated as 249 mb
>> then
>> my boot time is 95 seconds.
>>
>> But If I divide my CF into two partitions (primary 200) and a second
>> Partition of 49 megs and copy the same exact image to the primary
>> partition,
>> the boot time is reduced to 48 seconds.
>>
>> Now My Question, if it's the same exact image, why are the boot times way
>> different. Both have EWF Ram Registry enabled.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
>> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eeQKAAW5FHA.2676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi Richard,
>> >
>> > RAM EWF will actualy speed boot process since all writes are written to
>> > memory intead on CF medium. EWF is completely transparent to
>> > all read requests and it does them either from memory for only changed
>> > data or from CF when data are not cached as changed blocks.
>> >
>> > If you doubt at EWF then can you please try to boot system with EWF
>> > disabled and tell us boot time. I would be very suprised if EWF
>> > has something to do with this boot problem.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Slobodan
>> >
>> >
>> > "Richard" <Richard dot skinner at compressor-systems.com> wrote in
>> > message
>> > news:ummOYrK5FHA.2816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> Target: XPe SP1
>> >> Pentium 667mhz
>> >> 256 MB CF
>> >> 256 MB Ram
>> >> EWF Ram
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> My Normal Boot time is 95 seconds. However I played around yesterday
>> >> and
>> >> divided my CF into two partitions. The first partition is 200 meg and
>> >> the
>> >> second partition is 49 megs. I copied my same image over to the 200
>> >> meg
>> >> partition and noticed my boot times are now steady at 48 seconds.
>> >> Nothing
>> >> changes at all besides for dividing the CF into two partitions.
>> >>
>> >> Does EWF have to load the entire CF into Ram when it boots? Is there
>> >> any
>> >> other logical reason why my boot time was dropped in half?
>> >>
>> >> Richard
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>


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