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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:01:58
Message-Id: CADPrc82V1coDnbKQuazims6ON-3ZmoxNEmwc0YFr-v71SiznSQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
2 <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:40:43 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
4 >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
5 >> > Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently.
6 >> > I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working :
7 >> > Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt 8 s ,
8 >> > 'startx' - GUI ready 4 s : total 22 s + entering userid+password ;
9 >> > I start the I/net connection (Dhcpcd) manually from the GUI ( 15 s ).
10 >> > I assume most of the speed is attributable to the SSD,
11 >> > perhaps a bit to the 1600 MHz memory; of course, Gentoo shares the honors;
12 >> > my desktop manager is Fluxbox & I start apps on desktops manually.
13 >>
14 >> Toshiba Portégé Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memory, and
15 >> a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from the
16 >> time I enter my password and my GNOME 3 desktop is ready it takes
17 >> another 6 seconds, so 18 seconds in total (plus how much it takes for
18 >> me to click in my user and enter my password).
19 >>
20 >> Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest is
21 >> systemd.
22 >>
23 >> Regards.
24 >
25 > from hitting SPACE to desktop: less than 4s.
26
27 I agree. My laptop wakes up from suspension in less than that (around
28 1 second, actually). My desktop in about the same, 3 or 4 seconds.
29
30 > Suspend-to-ram. Who cares about boot times?
31 > (for the record: from grub to kdm login ca 10sec. Without systemd).
32
33 Regards.
34 --
35 Canek Peláez Valdés
36 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
37 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México