Comment 145 for bug 128803

Seb, just out of curosity, what are your criteria for a "usable desktop loaded"? Do you mean when everything (ie panel applets) is in place *and* the hard drive is quiet? 'cause I based all my numbers on the moment at which the hard drive stops hammering (since I think there is no other way to get valid/reliable/consistent benchmark results).

Recently, I discovered a truly neat tutorial (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651) for manually using readahead to cut down my login time to 14-20 seconds in gutsy, but it is a hack on top of ubuntu, not a real solution (or at least, I would prefer for ubuntu to do it for me: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/login-readahead)