Gutsy speed

[Caleb Marcus]

On Dec 6, 2007 8:25 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> > I'm also interested in some speed improvements. My ubuntu laptop needs
> > approximately 5 mins to boot. It is a Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz with 2GB ram,
> > so it is very similar to your system. Even my much older desktop system
> > (P4 3.2GHz) boots much faster. The first part of the boot sequence
> > (where the splash screen with the progress bar is shown) is reasonable
> > fast, but once X comes up, I have to wait several minutes before my
> > gnome desktop appears. During that time, I only see a light brown
> > background color.
>
> It sounds like you have something configured to start up in your gnome
> session, that is taking the time. This is nothing to do with boot up.
>
> So I would start by taking at a look at your Session configuration and
> see if there is something in that is taking all the time ?
>
> Chris
>

I've noticed that having a lot of panel applets can slow Gnome startup.
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