Gutsy speed

[Jef Driesen]

Davide Corio wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 06/12/2007 alle 13.45 +0100, Jef Driesen ha scritto:
>> 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.
> 
> 5 mins?? O_o
> 
> In this case, chech your hostname (open gnome-terminal and type
> hostname)
> 
> You need to have the same hostname in /etc/hosts, and it has to be
> associated to 127.0.1.1 (you can do the same check through System ->
> Administration -> Network)

Because of the very long boot time, I always start doing something else 
while the system is booting. But this morning I actually timed the boot 
sequence and it takes approximately 1 min for booting and 1 min for the 
gnome desktop. So it is already much better than it used to be.

I also changed the /etc/hosts like you said, but it doesn't seem to make 
much difference.