Comment 117 for bug 128803

Holy COW! That guy nailed it! As much as I *love* network manager, I never *suspected* it at all.

Here are my benchmarks on my desktop computer. It uses a DHCP wired network interface.
==== with network-manager =====
splash start to login ready: 32.48 seconds
login to fully loaded*: 51.07 seconds

==== without network-manager, no network interface configured ====
splash start to login ready: 31.30 seconds (not significative)
login to fully loaded*: 34.44 seconds!

==== without network-manager, DHCP interface configured manually ====
splash start to login ready: 32 seconds (not significative)
login to fully loaded*: 34 seconds!

*: no hdd scratching and all panel applets loaded
There needs to be some serious profiling done here.