a blog by Marius Gedminas

Posts tagged Gnome

GNOME startup time

On my laptop (Pentium M, 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM) it takes exactly 68 seconds from the time I press Enter in the GDM login screen, until the GNOME desktop is completely loaded (the last applets appear and the disk activity stops). This is GNOME 2.16.1 from Ubuntu Edgy. This is after a fresh reboot (so, nothing in disk cache, except for what Ubuntu's readahead loads). The startup process is not interfering (I waited until the disk activity stopped before I logged in).