1 minute booting time

P_Cherry · January 17, 2019 at 4:38 PM

Hello,

Do you see any space to speed up my current 1 minute booting time (59 seconds from PowerOn to Kodi main screen)?

It is HTPC with asrock j3160tm-itx motherboard and system on 2.5" HDD.

The logs are the following:

systemd-analyze time | pastebinit -> http://ix.io/1xxq

systemd-analyze blame | pastebinit -> http://ix.io/1xxp

journalctl -b 0 | pastebinit -> http://ix.io/1xxo

Thank you for any hint

Peter

**Klojum** · January 17, 2019 at 5:02 PM Official Post

Best way to speed up a PC regardless the system? Get a (cheap) SSD, not a HDD. There are Kingston 120GB SSDs now for 23 euros in shops.

A typical 2.5" HDD is usually a 5400rpm disk, so it's by far the slowest part of the machine.

I don't unusual large stops between components.

The j3160tm-ITX is a 6W TPD Celeron processor, so what were you expecting?

P_Cherry · January 18, 2019 at 9:13 AM

Thanks, I was asking mainly in relation to attached logs (I tried to switch off logging in advancedsettings.xml but no effect).

BTW j3160tm-ITX is suitable for camera 4K files on FullHD, HEVC/H265, SATA even with this passive 6W TPD !

Additionally my HDD is 7200.

**CvH** · January 18, 2019 at 9:37 AM Official Post

your system is up after 18sec

I guess some addon at kodi is going wild?

You could temp deactivate all addons?

**Klojum** · January 18, 2019 at 9:58 AM Official Post

I as a non-developer (but tester) can see the various time steps, and none seem really out of place. but I also really don't have

Also, any SSD will also easily outrun a 7200rpm HDD

Since the Kodi Leia builds, Libreelec has a waiting/time-out period in the boot up of a Generic x86-64 PC of approx 5-8 seconds, also while "Waiting for network" is active. I have a Celeron 1037 machine with an SSD on which this delay is some 14-15 seconds. Kodi itself is initialized in 3 seconds on the Celeron box, so 18 seconds in total...

I already pointed this out to lrusak , but nothing came out of it so far.

**vpeter** · January 18, 2019 at 10:05 AM

I doubt HDD/SSD is making much difference in this case.

zehner · January 18, 2019 at 10:07 AM

I don't know the boot time of a HDD with this system, but I have the Asrock j3160-ITX and the cheapest Kingston 64GB SSD and the boot time is 15 sec max with Krypton and Leia (even with the LibreELEC setting "Wait 10 sec for network" which I need because of my external MySQL-DB)

1 minute seems way to long, you should check your settings and temporarily deactive a few addons. I can see many exceptions with librespot and transmission-daemon (addons that I've never used) and

PlayMedia(http://icecast5.play.cz:80/expres128aac)

seems to block loading for a few seconds

**Klojum** · January 18, 2019 at 10:08 AM Official Post

True, for the booting delay

**awiouy** · January 18, 2019 at 12:15 PM Official Post

What I can see from the logs is that processes (eg librespot) start before network is online.

Have you tried to set wait for network in LibreELEC settings?

That way, well behaved processes (Kodi) will wait for network being online.

Otherwise, try a wired connection.

P_Cherry · January 21, 2019 at 9:17 AM

Thanks for hints.

After disabling most of the addons, starting time is now about 45 seconds (15 seconds better).

- Power on -> after about 20 seconds Libreelec starting logo -> after another 20 seconds Kodi starting logo

- setting Wait for network took no effect (it was even longer when ON)

**Klojum** · January 21, 2019 at 10:47 AM Official Post

How about renaming your .kodi folder temporarily and have LibreELEC/Kodi create a new fresh & clean profile, just for a comparison?

Yes, the Wait for network may add a second or two, for actually initializing the network connection.

nooryani84 · January 21, 2019 at 11:31 AM

1 minute is not terrible to be honest. I would see if there are any BIOS / UEFI Firmware features you can change to speed up boot time. What motherboard do you have?

P_Cherry · February 5, 2019 at 9:04 AM

I did clean install of LibreELEC 9.0 (Leia) and total time is now about 30 sec:) KODI itself starts almost immediately but without any addons.

As stated above I have ASRock J3160TM-ITX, the biggest time takes BIOS boot and LibreELEC boot itself now.

- fast boot enabled (ultra fast boot doesn't work)

**Klojum** · February 5, 2019 at 10:06 AM Official Post

Isn't fast boot a Windows thing? (I haven't really used Windows for some time).

Why not try and disable the fast boot option, if you haven't tried it already.

P_Cherry · February 5, 2019 at 4:08 PM

Yes, ultra fast boot is probably just Windows thing.