Wow 42 seconds to load jaguar!

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in macOS edited January 2014
I knew my 933Mhz. Powermac was loading faster after installing Jag, but this is terrific.



From the moment I push the Power button to the time I can actually get online is 41-42 seconds.



Not bad huh?
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  • Reply 1 of 33
    Yeah...I want Apple to eventually get it down to 30 seconds. But any increase are a welcome addition.
  • Reply 2 of 33
    rodukroduk Posts: 706member
    [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison:

    <strong>Yeah...I want Apple to eventually get it down to 30 seconds. But any increase are a welcome addition.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Shouldn't that be decrease
  • Reply 3 of 33
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by RodUK:

    <strong>



    Shouldn't that be decrease </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Increase in speed
  • Reply 4 of 33
    Hmm...



    I wonder what you guys are doing?



    Jaguar starts up slow for me.



    I mean, the blue and white screen that has the scrollbar is fast... goes by in like 5 seconds, then 5 more seconds to get to the login screen, and maybe 10-15 to get the hd to stop spinning after the desktop appears. (however, Snapz Pro slows me down)



    My problem is that the black and grey screen with the apple logo is there forever! Like 1 minute just on that screen. After that the startup is fast. Is there something wrong here?



    I did a clean install on an erased hard drive. (well, I installed 9.2.2 first so I could use classic)
  • Reply 5 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by RodUK:

    <strong>



    Shouldn't that be decrease </strong><hr></blockquote>



    D'Oh! Early morning brain fart
  • Reply 6 of 33
    escherescher Posts: 1,811member
    [quote]Originally posted by rogue27:

    <strong>Jaguar starts up slow for me.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Same here. I just installed the 0823 Security Update, which required a restart. From the startup chime to the moment when the dock appeared took 120 seconds (2 minutes)! This is on an iBook/500/320. I did a clean install of Jaguar after erasing my HDD.



    Escher
  • Reply 7 of 33
    Mine boots in under a minute, i was changing the start up apple, the one at the gray screen, while talking to a friend of mine. I told him i had to restart, we where on aim, and he is like ok. Less then a minute it later... No way did you restart that fast heh
  • Reply 8 of 33
    I wonder if this is a G3 vs G4 issue?



    The two machines where it seems slow on the grey screen are G3s. I didn't look at how fast the G4 starts up.



    By the way, OS 9 had a way to disable memory check. Is it on or off by default in OS X and can it be changed?
  • Reply 9 of 33
    My PowerMac G4 400Mhz with 512MB and 10.2 take 68 seconds.
  • Reply 10 of 33
    davegeedavegee Posts: 2,765member
    Boot times will be all over the board...



    Even just when fellow 'PowerMac G4' owners are comparing times.



    All IDE (as well a All Firewire) are not created equal. Each update to the system board can/could/does change how good/bad fast/slow IDE (and Firewire) operate. Also going from a 5600RPM drive to a 7500RPM drive could also explain speed differences. Finally even with most things being equal a 7500RPM can have different cache sizes and that too could make a big difference...



    Learn more at: <a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/</a>;



    Mike does some pretty extensive testing of many different configs.



    Dave
  • Reply 11 of 33
    [quote]Originally posted by DaveGee:

    <strong>Boot times will be all over the board...



    Even just when fellow 'PowerMac G4' owners are comparing times.



    All IDE (as well a All Firewire) are not created equal. Each update to the system board can/could/does change how good/bad fast/slow IDE (and Firewire) operate. Also going from a 5600RPM drive to a 7500RPM drive could also explain speed differences. Finally even with most things being equal a 7500RPM can have different cache sizes and that too could make a big difference...



    Learn more at: <a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/</a>;



    Mike does some pretty extensive testing of many different configs.



    Dave</strong><hr></blockquote>





    I know there are many factors that affect boot time. Even so, you would think everybody's bootup would get faster than it was before, not some getting faster and some getting slowed down.
  • Reply 12 of 33
    my QS867 boots in 45 seconds in Jag. the new hard drive with a new/clean install helps im sure.

    My kids imac dv 450 boots in 70 sec, but that was an update install of jag, and the 13gig5400rpm drive is all but full so that probably adds to the boot time.

    I am getting another WDcaviar disk for the imac, i got one for my QS and it nice. Hopefully it will help the imac last another year or two.



    why cant money grow on trees? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 13 of 33
    majormattmajormatt Posts: 1,077member
    g4/400, agp radeon, 704 megs of ram



    10.1.5: 2:02

    10.2.0: 1:26



    Classic



    10.1.5: 1:46

    10.2.0: 0:29



    classic without extentions starts up in under 15 seconds!
  • Reply 14 of 33
    I put 10.2 on my G3 Powerbook with 128 megs of RAM. I counted the time from pushing the start button to being able to work in the OS. 70 seconds. Not too shabby.
  • Reply 15 of 33
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    One thing to consider is that the more RAM you have, the longer the RAM check at boot is going to take. I bumped my Pismo up from 256MB to 384MB, and there was a definite pause that wasn't there before, under 10.1.5. I can't imagine how long it must take with RAM banks approaching a gig... yeesh. (Okay, so I can... 1:26 at 704MB... )
  • Reply 16 of 33
    45 secs.....



    ti800



    1gb ram



    btw i disabled the following

    ldap2&3

    network time synch.....



    anything else in inetd.conf & system has sped

    up slightly



    nb if you run ssh then leave that alone......



    oddly enuf the hourglass seems to appear more often in 10.2 than in 10.1.5.....so jag may

    not really be all that quick...they may simply

    be faking it in some instances...



    also the fan seems to come on more quickly....
  • Reply 17 of 33
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    If you've crashed previously, OS X will run fsck on start-up as well, before the blue start-up screen appears.
  • Reply 18 of 33
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by Kickaha:

    <strong>One thing to consider is that the more RAM you have, the longer the RAM check at boot is going to take.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    oh NO ! <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />

    I have more than one GB of RAM... (1.12GB to be exactly)
  • Reply 19 of 33
    Well, I installed 10.2 last night on my wife's iMac (640 megs) and it is noticeably slower when I'm logging in and out. Mail seems a little quicker.... it unmounts my external drive quicker too. But it is definitely slower than I expected.... my wife is QUITE disappointed
  • Reply 20 of 33
    Here's a list of startup times for my computers.



    Xserve Dual 1Ghz

    1.5GIG DDR Ram

    39sec



    PowerMac 1Ghz

    1Gig DDR Ram

    167MHz Bus

    34sec



    iMac G3 700Mhz

    384MB ram

    56sec



    eMac G4 700Mhz

    512MB Ram

    47.3sec



    PowerMac 9600/MP266

    640MB ram

    Mac OS 9.2.2

    65Sec



    PowerMac 8100/80

    256MB Ram

    Mac OS 8.5

    165Sec



    Quadra 840av

    40Mhz

    96Mb Ram

    Mac 7.5

    Sorry I fell asleep



    Well theres the rundown.
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