About improving Lubuntu Quantal boot time and a new year wish

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi Pascual,

whenever you make serious changes to your system, you may be fast enough to
see a message regarding 'ureadahead has been triggered'. This is the system
that collects all the initial  startup stuff into one area so it can be
quickly accessed. I've never had a better explanation than from the guy
responsible for it, back in 10.04 :)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502

Regards,

Phill.

On 3 January 2013 23:10, Pascual Lucero <pascualucero at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I would like to ask about measures to improve Lubuntu Quantal boot time
> and Lubuntu boot time in general (I used in the past Lubuntu 11.10 y
> Lubuntu 12.04). Usually I uninstall programs that I don't need in my
> computer (for example, bluetooth-related programs) and I have followed
> several recommendations from different websites about programs that are not
> needed at startup and have used programs like sysv-rc-conf, bum  in order
> to remove unnecessary services. Similarly, I have edited /etc/xdg/autostart
> for the same purpose and of course, looked at "Desktop Session Settings"
> and have changed the grub options in /etc/default/grub in the line
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to "quiet 3" as I saw in one recommendation.
> Finally, I have checked with bootchart and have seen that apparently
> plymouth takes most of the boot time as well as ntfs-3g (because I
> automatically mount a ntfs partition). I removed in /etc/fstab the
> automatic mounting of that ntfs-3g partition I had as a final measure.
>
> With those measures, boot time is about 25 seconds (i.e, from choosing
> Lubuntu in the grub menu until seen the login screen it takes that time).
> In which sense this is relatively slow? Before, with a fresh install it was
> 30 seconds.
>
>
> - I installed in the same computer Ubuntu 12.10 (with Unity) and boot time
> was 32 seconds with a fresh install.
> - I also installed in the same computer Linux Mint 14 Xfce edition and
> boot time was 14 seconds with a fresh install!! (What is the secret?)
>
> So, I don't undestand why Lubuntu, being the lightest Ubuntu variant, is
> not as fast at boot time as a Xfce variant and how can this boot time can
> be improved. I am amazed that also, in terms of battery life in my laptop,
> the power consumption is even worse. Certainly, Lubuntu is very responsive
> and and light in terms of CPU and RAM usage (and I use Lubuntu for may
> everyday work). However, in the aspects I have mentioned, you don't feel
> the difference you would expect in using a lightweight DE.
>
> Is there another tip I have missed to improve boot time in my computer?
> Are there plans to work in improving Lubuntu boot time (for all users) in
> future versions?
>
> Thanks for your attention,
>
>
> *PS: New year's wish: I have seen Lubuntu artwork very developed ... but
> only in the default light theme. Are there plans to work in creating a dark
> theme on par with the light one?*
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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