Hi, I did profiling of gnome login process way back in Aug 2002 on GNOME 2.0. I am not sure if its entirely correct now, but it could give some inputs. You may want to have a look at the post and related discussions at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-August/msg00342.html
Regards, Narayana On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 05:21, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:42:41 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > Interestingly enough, implementing things such as disk defrag and sane > > readahead (a'la Windows XP and Mac OS X) may actually help mask the root > > problems we're seeing right now. So we better work on them before it's > > too late :-) > > <random lurker speculation> > > Starting up all the programs in the session at once probably makes things > look slower than they really are, just through the thundering herd > problem. I have no statistics on this. It's wild hand waving and > intuition. > > Usually when I log in, all these things try and start at once: > > - metacity > - evolution > - nautilus > - gnome-panel, and then all the panel applets > - gaim > - xmms > - terminals > - other stuff I don't remember > > Probably you could make the desktop appear quicker and feel more > responsive (even if it's actually not) by throttling things a bit. > So the file manager should start first, so the desktop appears, then the > panel, then the applets, then the WM and then the session managed apps > could be brought up. > > The trick is to avoid the Windows XP problem, where the desktop appears > right away and then hangs itself for 15 seconds while all the session apps > in the Startup folder begin :) > > </end random, probably worthless speculation> > > thanks -mike > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list