Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> >> Regulars will remember the threads re the machine I built recently.
> >> I thought they mb interested in the start-up time now all is working :
> >> Gigabyte BIOS  10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt  8 s ,
> >> 'startx' - GUI ready  4 s : total  22 s  + entering userid+password ;
> >> I start the I/net connection (Dhcpcd) manually from the GUI ( 15 s ).
> >> I assume most of the speed is attributable to the SSD,
> >> perhaps a bit to the 1600 MHz memory; of course, Gentoo shares the
> >> honors;
> >> my desktop manager is Fluxbox & I start apps on desktops manually.
> > 
> > Toshiba Portégé Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memory, and
> > a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from the
> > time I enter my password and my GNOME 3 desktop is ready it takes
> > another 6 seconds, so 18 seconds in total (plus how much it takes for
> > me to click in my user and enter my password).
> > 
> > Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest is
> > systemd.
> Damn, is GNOME fat. I booted to text console (disabled GDM), and I
> also disabled plymouth. From GRUB2 to login prompt it takes less than
> 6 seconds, so the really slow part is starting GDM and then switching
> to GNOME 3. The BIOS is pretty fast, it takes 4 seconds from power on
> to the GRUB2 menu.
> 
> The fast part (GRUB2->login prompt) is because of systemd. 

I doubt that,

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