@benjojo "stop buying HPE"?

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Smells like failing power supply.

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The numbers do not make sense to me.

But consider the source. Funny how it attributes about 7 secs to firmware, loader, and kernel. Each.

I see no way that systemd could know in any way how much time the loader spent as systemd is a userland process that does not even exist until the kernel has started it.

@SpaceLifeForm @benjojo must be bad capacitors /s

@benjojo does it at least show some screen output while computing the timing? My X99 board shows a black screen for about half a minute before the first d screen output.

@benjojo feels like ages to boot, but *this* seems a bit long to me. I suspect this "Machinist X99 PR9-H" board might have a buggy UEFI firmware providing wrong values.

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doesn't the BIOS have an option to remember the solutions from previous boot, then on a new boot quickly check if they still work, and only do the full memory training if they don't?

@benjojo Thank God, I thought I was the only one annoyed by this

@benjojo about 20 years ago we got one of the old Sun “Thumper” storage chassis. They had 48 spinning SATA HDDs in them, the BIOS took an absolute age to POST!

@benjojo Hm, i got a server box with DDR4 in it, and it takes forever to boot in a similar way.

@benjojo way to boot modern systems quickly:
Boot with as little RAM as possible and then hotplug the rest of it later during startup.

@benjojo this is why people think kexec is a good idea I guess.

@benjojo as someone who’s fairly new at dealing with bare metal servers… god I hate this stuff so much. Feels backwards that my 5yo laptop boots in 30s but a 96-thread beast takes a good 5 minutes. (And much more to gracefully reboot due to the time it takes for some services to cleanly exit)

@benjojo how.many services start?