Hi, I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting#head-dca0372aa8fd490a9717ad0c72c9b400c236a581 . While not as slow as other distros it is a shame to see things slow down a bit.
Of special interest to me is the fall in "time to usable auto-login desktop" case as this is something I use regularly. It seems that modern Ubuntu simply has more to do/start after a user logs in... Before I forget back in the Gutsy days I ran various timing tests to see what would help boot speed. I think I found that doing a profile boot helped the most (although you may never get back the time it took to do the profile boot :) followed by disabling appropriate modules in /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common (if you use restricted drivers) and finally a very slight improvement by not starting services for things you don't have (e.g. this machine doesn't have bluetooth) but one must take care when doing this. The difference between disabling services using /etc/default/ and update-rc.d remove seemed very small. I had more benefit tuning readahead to read files that were used during user log in too. Shutdown speed also seems to have fallen in Hardy with gdm often hanging for 30 seconds when it stopped and the first stage of the shutdown animation is often not displayed. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
