Am Samstag, 13. Oktober 2012, 15:57:31 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@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, -- #163933
