Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:40:43 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
> > Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently.
> > I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working :
> > Gigabyte BIOS  10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt  8 s ,
> > 'startx' - GUI ready  4 s : total  22 s  + entering userid+password ;
> > I start the I/net connection (Dhcpcd) manually from the GUI ( 15 s ).
> > I assume most of the speed is attributable to the SSD,
> > perhaps a bit to the 1600 MHz memory; of course, Gentoo shares the honors;
> > my desktop manager is Fluxbox & I start apps on desktops manually.
>
> Toshiba Portégé Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memory, and
> a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from the
> time I enter my password and my GNOME 3 desktop is ready it takes
> another 6 seconds, so 18 seconds in total (plus how much it takes for
> me to click in my user and enter my password).
>
> Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest is
> systemd.
>
> Regards.

from hitting SPACE to desktop: less than 4s.

Suspend-to-ram. Who cares about boot times?
(for the record: from grub to kdm login ca 10sec. Without systemd).

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