Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2021 22:09 Post subject: New full-version feature suggestion
Add option to NOT load wifi at boot.
Add option to NOT load usb at boot.
With virtualization being more and more a thing, being able to disable options you can't use in a virtualized environment, would significantly speed up boot speed.
I'm using the free x86 version at home, and the full at work - both under hyper-v.
The free version loads almost instantly, while for the full there is a noticeable delay, due to wifi drivers being loaded.
It would be good to have a full -no connections limit version- that would load as fast as the free does, so that users wouldn't even have time to notice that the system is rebooting - especially since the delay is for loading drivers that can't be used.
Tested under Hyper-V on an i9-9900T 2.1GHz (4.4 turbo), 16GB, NVMe RAID 1.
Reboot from web interface.
Time from command till reconnect:
Public: 15sec
Full: 22sec
Now, 7sec might not sound that much, but the specific machine can boost up to 4.4GHz (and did while rebooting), which means it will be significantly faster for single threaded tasks than most servers.
I have the full version running on a 2xE5 Xeon @2.6, and i'm quite sure that boot times are significantly higher - can't reboot that machine atm to get exact numbers.
Certainly not a top priority for the devs, but it is boot time wasted on features that usually can't be enabled and/or not needed for certain environments.
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Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 12:35 Post subject:
Hello again, sorry I did not reply earlier.
You can disable wifi radios and USB core already.
By default USB core is disabled usually.
For the wireless radio its the setting I mentioned, its hidden by default you need to toggle it on and then a new setting becomes visible to disable the radio. See attachment.
Wireless radio is Services tab -> Services tab
USB is Services tab -> USB tab
If those dont help you at all shave any time off, the other alternative is to put the VM's on a RAID 0 and then you can really shave boot time off.
There are also ways to optimize some VM's boot time.
I will leave that up to you and your search engine foo.
What I will do when I have time is setup a vm with a x86 build and see if the options I mentioned exist on such builds, I will never use hyper-V fair warning, I use oracle virtualbox exclusively.