Gutsy speed

[Jef Driesen]

Chris Jones 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 ?

I configured gnome to restore my previous session at startup. At did 
that as a substitute for sleep/hibernate, because it does not work on my 
laptop. Maybe that is the problem?

However, the long waiting time seems to be before loading applications 
(but I don't know how to check that). It takes a long time before 
anything is shown on the screen. But once the panel and the desktop 
wallpaper appear, I see my applications appear pretty quickly in the 
workspaces.