Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)

Fri Oct 22 18:22:13 UTC 2004

who cares how many seconds it takes?
this just shows how far we've come as IT pros,
that we nitpick over a few cycles here or there.

~piranha

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Matt
Zimmerman
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 6:19 PM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Startup Time (Was: Re: What do you like best about Ubuntu?)

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:41:47AM +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> Have you timed this? Because it would be very encouraging... I timed the
> startup times (Grub to loaded desktop with auto login) of FC2, Ubuntu
> and Win XP. My results are: FC2 68 seconds, Ubuntu 52 seconds, Windows
> 30 seconds. So not as bad as I expected and both FC2 and Ubuntu were
> loading some additional services like Apache and the mysql daemon.
> Without those, Ubuntu was starting in 45 seconds.
> But still I wish this would be a lot faster. GDM should load very soon
> and it would be just great if non-critical services could be loaded
> after the GUI is ready (and/or while the user is logging in). Also I
> heard about alternative init scripts which load services in parallel,
> which is supposed to be a lot faster. Is there any reason why this isn't
> common practice? Are there problems which can't be worked around?

This is something I would like to improve in a future release.  I've added
some notes to HoaryHedgehog in the wiki.

-- 
 - mdz

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