49 seconds to boot: how do I stack up?

[Willy Hamra]

2009/4/24 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
>> after installing many programs, i have firestarter, dkms for virtual
>> box and nvidia, bind9, squid, and many others that i can think of
>> seeing during the boot process (note i always remove the "quiet" and
>> "splash" options from grub to get a verbose boot insted of the splash
>> image) and my boot from grub till kdm kicks in is about ~15
>> seconds!!!!!!! yes, even less than the advertized 20.
>
> I see, thanks. I am bypassing KDM (auto login) and counting the time
> from Grub until when I can open a Firefox window. The discrepancy is
> now apparent.
>

aah, ok. yeah, i have autologin enabled here, and till i can start
using firefox, no it takes a while. KDE takes about 15 seconds to
load, and then the computer become very sluggish fr about 10 seconds
after which my programs from previous session start popping one after
the other.


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Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.