From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDAF138010 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50DAF21C064; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5497F21C067 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:14:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id jg15so1827228bkc.40 for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:14:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=y0PEvH+VQ52OunJCezomQEquN9YyI4UpGZC9LiVyJMk=; b=NRq5j2illMWshdHbyglNUNeyalnFUI+qeBZ8ElEa+hAgu1x1Z4AIncjDCl14ZUDagv BvEgKRvfzatmvuGqMsxQIbsNM7C0ahN6OQp7uc/bWFmKjFZBjZbQVL1tX6hzR2nH8vsD pSmqYKRiQxaLaHrw1aiLD89/qtOKjy7zcfs2LhrY/Ou0EjrZLja9jKHXYAD3PGF1en+4 B4OpoUzpJS8mZd1gRQRU1w2vXoiG4Q+HG5Lg8B9JN51paGBRbWD1OoWhhQAQwQMDWbzy eWzb6sM8i+bkBV6g4vGn4qcRRMAjj/Bk63lnLmyStmHJPtts7s5aiypPVhgUbcIJhmpn 5mbg== Received: by 10.205.128.148 with SMTP id he20mr977279bkc.99.1350162854492; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p4FC60F36.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [79.198.15.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e3sm6805909bks.7.2012.10.13.14.14.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Canek =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pel=E1ez_Vald=E9s?= Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : start-up time Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:14:11 +0200 Message-ID: <2066025.PxZWztkMcY@energy> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.2 (Linux/3.4.13; KDE/4.9.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20121013202419.GB1115@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Archives-Salt: ab9adc75-48f4-4da7-8f02-c564343be2f7 X-Archives-Hash: a6377d4cd2e6c6599e754c756bb2bd17 Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s:= > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s =20 wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb = 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 worki= ng : > >> Gigabyte BIOS 10 s , Linux Lilo prompt - login prompt 8 s , > >> 'startx' - GUI ready 4 s : total 22 s + entering userid+passwor= d ; > >> 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.= > >=20 > > Toshiba Port=E9g=E9 Z830, with an iCore 5 at 1.60GHz, 6 GB of memor= y, and > > a tiny 128 GB SSD. It takes 12 seconds from GRUB to GDM, and from t= he > > 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 f= or > > me to click in my user and enter my password). > >=20 > > Like you, I attribute most of the speed gain to the SSD. The rest i= s > > 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. >=20 > The fast part (GRUB2->login prompt) is because of systemd.=20 I doubt that, --=20 #163933