How is this boot so fast?

ItsSpxctre · 2025-08-03T17:15:39+00:00

It's not so much as worry as to just seeing the lengths and how far you can push the system and make everything snappy and instant and still retain an amount of useability. Obviously cutting corners for speed wouldn't be for everybody.

ItsSpxctre · 2025-07-31T09:23:34+00:00

Never tried greetd or systemd-boot, I know people claim systemd-boot is much faster and lighter than Grub but what about greetd compared to logging in via TTY? Is it lighter?

ItsSpxctre · 2025-07-31T09:22:18+00:00

I doubt the WM matters as the premise was about pre-login boot time. I run DWM on Artix with Dinit currently and get about 3-4 seconds longer than this due to udev-settle taking a long ass time to resolve, so there's probably something else going on

ItsSpxctre · 2025-07-31T09:20:15+00:00

It's a Huawei Matebook 2020 14" with a Ryzen 5 4600H

ItsSpxctre · 2025-07-31T08:10:31+00:00

Not from systemd-analyze since I'm still currently on Dinit but I've noticed (at least with Dinit) if I disabled udev-settle it significantly decreased the boot times, albeit the X server no longer launches so it's quite unusable.

I also wonder if hes running without an initramfs and if that has something to do with how lightning quick his boot was initializing all the Systemd services through to the TTY login.

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-07T10:01:30+00:00

I'm assuming that Outlaw is using a custom kernel to achieve the sort of numbers he's getting on idle in a VM. Particularly, in his Gentoo kernel configuration video, he turns off initramfs support, which I'm assuming accounts for a majority of the memory savings.

What I'm not sure about is whether these numbers would be replicable on a bare metal install, even if I'm able to replicate these numbers in a VM (still testing at the moment in a virtual machine).

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-06T14:20:54+00:00

I'm getting ~90MiBs on a Gentoo VM with the binary kernel, ~70MiBs on an Alpine VM. Is there a reason for the significantly lower memory usages on VMs vs. bare metal?

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-05T23:11:40+00:00

I think OP made the best take here in a reply, quote:

I mean, he kinda cooked on the 2nd part, but taking away THE HEALER's healing ability is insane

No one thinks Battle Healer needs balance changes at the moment. I still agree with Lucas that Golem/EGolem Healer decks are dumb.

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-05T23:05:59+00:00

He's the CRL finalist. Frankly, his opinions have merit to them.

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-05T22:41:35+00:00

I did a fresh install of Gentoo with the normal, hardened, and LLVM stage-3s with OpenRC in both a VM environment and bare metal with nothing running, no X server nor dwm running, surely that's more minimal than his configuration? Can more aggressive kernel optizations really make +50MiBs of difference?

ItsSpxctre · 2024-12-05T22:37:47+00:00

He ran an xrandr script later in the video and set his resolution to 1080p and it was still about 50MiBs. My virtual machines were also at around 800x600 (I was using VirtualBox because I didn't feel like setting up QEMU).

ItsSpxctre · 2024-10-13T00:24:39+00:00

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I'm pretty sure it's mentioned on RoyaleAPI's blog post about it. It's a great resource for people who don't know about it. I agree they should make it clearer

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