Gutsy speed

[Derek Broughton]

Tony Arnold wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:58 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>>> Yes, it takes me an absolute minimum of 20 seconds.
>>> 20 seconds to launch firefox? Of course counting the time to open 100
>>> tabs doesn't count as ff startup time ...
>> 
>> I just timed it - 21 seconds to first show an _incomplete_ firefox
>> window, and 3 more to actually paint the only tab (which was admittedly
>> an Internet page - maybe if I had just a local page open when I closed it
>> it would be faster, but it looks like not less than 20 seconds).
> 
> That seems incredibly slow! My system takes a couple of seconds to
> produce  a full tab. My home page is iGoogle.
> 
> What sort of processor and disk are you using and how much memory do you
> have? And do you have anything else much running at the same time?

It's an Intel Celeron M 520, running at 1.6GHz, a SATA disk (no idea of
specs - LVM and 4 JFS filesystems), and 1GB real memory and 3GB swap.  It's
always running a lot of cruft :-)  Currently running an Apache server, a
Plone server, a PostGreSQL database, an NX server, two Konquerors with
about a dozen tabs open, an IMAP server, two X sessions, and a partridge in
a pear tree. 
-- 
derek