Vipul, Unfortunately there does not seem to be any clear difference between starting times before or after the change. Looking at the strace logs the total times are before 1.71s and 0.76s, and after 0.61 and 0.65. The only one that stands out of those is is strace-before-1.log and looking at it seems that normal file handling operations etc were a bit slower, it was probably the first run and files were not yet cached. Also time-* logs show 1-1.5s elapsed times for all runs, so in this case the /etc/hosts modification does not seem to make a difference.
Strace log would be interesting from a case where the startup of gnome- terminal is significantly slower than it is after the /etc/hosts modification, for example, from a ~10s startup like the original bug reporter mentions. -- [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
