Comment 17 for bug 3485
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| Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote New bootchart timings | #17 |
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OK. It's taken me around 8-10 hours of dowloading burning and (re)installing but I have bootcharts for several distros now. The bootcharts say nothing of the time it takes to have a desktop after the display manager is started but I do have stopwatch timings of how long it took the clock applet to display itself. These results cannot be compared to the originals because they were done using a different disk drive that could be reformatted between installs.
The results can be seen on https:/
Summary:
Ubuntu dapper flight 3 is just as fast as Mandriva 2006.1 to get to the desktop. OpenSUSE 10.1b3 and Fedora FC5t3 are both noticiblely slower. Different distros start different services and Fedora no longer seem to be pursuing early gdm login.
One interesting thing that did emerge is that if you have a disk with a lot of partitions your boot can be slowed down significantly (10s of seconds). This appears to be down to hal automouting all the extra partitions. OpenSUSE was especially vulnerable to this.