Live CD Performance

Status

• Created: Date(2005-04-23T03:04:58Z) by MattZimmermanBR

• Priority: MediumPriorityBR

• People: AdamConradLead, FabioMassimoDiNittoSecondBR

• Contributors: MattZimmermanBR

• Interested: BR

• Status: BrainDump, BreezyGoal, UduBof, DistroSpecificationBR

• Branch: BR

• Malone Bug: BR

• Packages: BR

• Depends: BR

• UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc BR

Introduction

The boot time for the Ubuntu live CD should be comparable (or superior) to other popular live CDs.

Rationale

Scope and Use Cases

Implementation Plan

Data Preservation and Migration

Packages Affected

User Interface Requirements

Outstanding Issues

UDU BOF Agenda

• d-i performance
• casper performance

• Ubuntu boot performance (FasterBoot)

UDU Pre-Work

• Profile the live CD boot sequence to measure the time taken for each step
  • d-i startup (time-to-first-question)
  • Pre-casper d-i activity (measured per menu entry)
  • Casper d-i activity (measured per casper.d script)
  • Standard boot sequence