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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:16:01
Message-Id: 2066025.PxZWztkMcY@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
2 > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>
3 wrote:
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
12 > >> honors;
13 > >> my desktop manager is Fluxbox & I start apps on desktops manually.
14 > >
15 > > Toshiba Portégé Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memory, and
16 > > a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from the
17 > > time I enter my password and my GNOME 3 desktop is ready it takes
18 > > another 6 seconds, so 18 seconds in total (plus how much it takes for
19 > > me to click in my user and enter my password).
20 > >
21 > > Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest is
22 > > systemd.
23 > Damn, is GNOME fat. I booted to text console (disabled GDM), and I
24 > also disabled plymouth. From GRUB2 to login prompt it takes less than
25 > 6 seconds, so the really slow part is starting GDM and then switching
26 > to GNOME 3. The BIOS is pretty fast, it takes 4 seconds from power on
27 > to the GRUB2 menu.
28 >
29 > The fast part (GRUB2->login prompt) is because of systemd.
30
31 I doubt that,
32
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Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>