Increase Booting Time
 

Well I have noticed that my booting time increase a lot lately. It takes at least the double time than initial did. Now it takes about 2min while at the beginning it was less than a minute.

Since it is the same hardware, do you have any idea what is causing this delay? How can I decrease the time without having to make a clear install?

Vista on the same HD takes about 2 - 3 minutes.

clear all caches with onyx makes a big difference on the time apps startup at. As for start up I dont know if it makes a difference Im guessing it will. I cant say for certain as i use my system as a utility more than anything so i dont use it for all kinds of progs if that makes sense

OS X usually gets quicker the first several times you boot as it learns what you need and what you don't. If it's longer than 30 or 40 seconds it's probably because it's stalled momentarily looking for or not finding things it thinks it should have (looking for hardware not there? hardware that's not initializing properly?) Has anything changed?

10.5.4 continues to boot in about 25-30 seconds on my 780G / Athlon64 X2 install. Vista Home Premium x64 (64-bit) boots in 30-35 seconds on the same machine (Vista is NOT on the same HD as my OSx86 install)...

im using

AMD Athlon X2 4200+
2GB DDR Ram

and i boot in 30secs, that seems to be the average.
is it true that with a mac ram will make it perform better then CPU i.e. the more ram i have the faster it will go?

Cheers

16 seconds once power button is pushed until Desktop appears and is responsive.

Using Compaq C714NR Laptop (Hey, it was $299!)
with iATKOS v4.1i

There a some incredibly fast boot times being reported here. I sure hope the nforce driver gets an update soon as I still have to wait around 2 minutes from power on to desktop.

ok, it's the same with me and my sb600 and phenom... this iokitwait thing... anyone found what it's for? It takes more than a minute, while my Acer laptop boots in 15 seconds. I would really like to speed it up, since my sleep is not working.

Hi Seawane,

If your SB600 is on the following list, you can try this AppleATIATA to see if it works and speeds up the booting time.

It works on my Acer Extensa 4420-5239 but it may conflict with AppleVIAATA.

Chun-Nan

/*
* Supported devices.
*/
#define ATA_ATI_ID 0x1002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP200 0x43491002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP300 0x43691002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP300_S1 0x436e1002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP400 0x43761002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP400_S1 0x43791002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP400_S2 0x437a1002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP600 0x438c1002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP600_S1 0x43801002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP700 0x439c1002
#define ATA_ATI_IXP700_S1 0x43901002

Just booted in 23s (darwin prompt till dock is loaded)
I'll remove some more kexts and add efi strings to boot a little faster.

edit: perhaps a new thread with some tips & tricks to speed up boot would be nice?

I agree. All the kexts in the Extensions folder aren't really needed; I think a good explanation of them would help individual users make the best choices of whether or not they need to keep them. I've started cleaning up my systems but haven't really been able find a good point of reference to learn from.