Dapper speed improvement

[frank mccormick]

Loïc Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> There has been discussions in the past about speed improvements in 
> Dapper, mainly about the boot time (some reported they where able to cut 
> their boot time in half) and about Gnome (especially starting time).
> 
> However, I see no improvements over Breezy (it is even slower for a few 
> applications like Thunderbird) so I'd like to now if something is badly 
> configured on my computer, or if these times are normal.
> 
> I've got a P4M 1800 Mhz, 1 Gig ram and a 7200t/min hard drive, and I use 
> the default Dapper configuration, with Gnome, except I use the Myst 
> theme supposed to be a bit faster. Here are the times :
> 
> - Boot time : 1 min 10 sec from Grub menu to login screen
> - Time from login screen to the desktop : 44 seconds
> (huge, it's about 35 sec on Breezy. Previous Gnome versions - gnome 
> 2.13.sthg had this time down to 27 sec, but it got worse with Gnome 2.14)
> Applications launch time :
> - nautilus : 5 sec (7sec total till it shows what's inside the home 
> directory)
> - gedit : 5 sec
> - gnome-terminal : 4 sec (5 sec total till it shows the prompt)
> - Firefox : 22 sec
> - Thunderbird : 25 sec
> - Open Office writer : 33 sec

     PIII 450 mhz  512mb 7200 rpm hd - 8 ms access

     boottime:       95 sec
     gdm to desktop: 25 sec
     Firefox       : 30 sec
     Thunderbird   : 25 sec
     Sylpheed      : 8 sec
     Nautilus      : 5 secs (no display) time to display contens varys
                                         with durectory


     Memory doesn't seem all that important but raw processor power is.

     Contrast this to my wifes 2.8 ghz with a gig of ram running XP.
     Time to a runnable desktop: 25 sec

     Guess I should kept the 2.8 ghz HP :)

Cheers