8-Way Spring 2020 Linux Distribution Performance Comparison With 240+ Benchmarks

[deusexmachina]

Aryma reference / citation please

[lichtenstein]

4.468s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

Man, thanks for this! I never gave it a thought but your post helped me to speed up my Manjaro boot considerably. Not only did I disable that service but I also disabled my 5 nfs auto-mounts. They were costing time, seconds for each which added up.

I need my nfs shares to be auto-mounted still and I solved it by just mounting them via a script that gets executed _after_ the KDE start up. It works like a charm and to me the difference (between fstab auto-mount and autostart running this script) is indistinguishable.

Now, I'm barely able to see the startup messages and KDE pops right up!

[deusexmachina]

nope their already benchmark for this and clear patch win against configured kernel

That's not what is claimed on Gentoo forums... So many claims, so few benchmarks.

[sheldonl]

Man, thanks for this! I never gave it a thought but your post helped me to speed up my Manjaro boot considerably. Not only did I disable that service but I also disabled my 5 nfs auto-mounts. They were costing time, seconds for each which added up.

I need my nfs shares to be auto-mounted still and I solved it by just mounting them via a script that gets executed _after_ the KDE start up. It works like a charm and to me the difference (between fstab auto-mount and autostart running this script) is indistinguishable.

Now, I'm barely able to see the startup messages and KDE pops right up!

Automounter should mount the nfs filesystem as soon as something attempts to access the directory path of the mount. Are you actually using Automounter or just relying on fstab to soft/hard mount the NFS file systems at boot time?

[lichtenstein]

Automounter should mount the nfs filesystem as soon as something attempts to access the directory path of the mount. Are you actually using Automounter or just relying on fstab to soft/hard mount the NFS file systems at boot time?

Just fstab with "noauto". What is this Automounter thingie?

[sheldonl]

Just fstab with "noauto". What is this Automounter thingie?

It's called autofs. You can use it to mount a ton of things so that it only mounts on demand. I don't know much about systemd, but this is how we used to do things way back in the 90's (and I continue to do things that way.) Solaris, AIX, Linux, HPUX, etc. they all had an autofs function, although it may have had different names, generally the automounting maps were fairly similar if not the same.

Here is a tutorial for linux: https://www.linuxtechi.com/automount...-using-autofs/

[JustinTurdeau]

On some multi-user environments part of the boot-up process can come from the network. For this case systemd defaults to waiting for the network to come on-line before certain steps are taken.

You can disable this and reboot to notice if it makes a difference for a slow boot sequence. This is applicable to most distro (arch, ubuntu, ... ):

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

lol, yet another Manjaro user who thinks he's an Arch user. No one uses NetworkManager on Arch.

[JustinTurdeau]

I probably know Arch better than you

Highly doubtful.

[Djbokka]

Does anyone know of benchmarks comparing tuned distros rather than out-of-the-box?

Are there tuning guides anywhere for achieving the best setup? The Manjaro performance section on the wiki seems to be relatively limited.