Søndag den 24. maj 2009 23:27:27 skrev Greg KH:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and i'm unpleasantly surprised, how faster is than openSUSE 11.1.
That's because it is a newer release, not really fair to compare apples to oranges here.
After the disappointment of 11.1, I tried Mandriva 2009.0 - which was about the same age as 11.1 (a month or so older) - and, while overall I found Mandriva to not be good enough to warrant a switch, one thing I noticed was markedly faster application startup - for example Firefox and various KDE applications. In my 4 years as an openSUSE user I can't count the times I've heard people complain about application startup speed in openSUSE, but I always discarded them as trolls, until I had this experience. I have no clue what could possibly cause this highly noticable difference in speed of the same software running on quite comparable installations ("full featured" GNU/Linux installations with KDE 4.1, ext3 file systems). Certainly a few megs of ram used more or less by different default services can't account for it. What I did notice was that on a cold start of for example Firefox or Systemsettings in openSUSE there's 3-5 secs of intense disk activity, while in Mandriva they'd just pop right up without any (audible) disk activity - on the same hardware with 1 gig of ram. So I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss these reports. And also I wouldn't focus only on boot speed, but also analyse application startup speed. PS: I should probably get around to testing if the barrier setting that we use on ext3, is the reason applications take twice as long to start as on other distros ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org