Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:25:49PM +0200, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > 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.
>
> > In according to minuses from Brainstorming,
> > http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#Slow.2Funstable_applications
> > http://en.opensuse.org/BrainStorming_Prague#Low-level_system_performance
> > and especially article
> > http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/12/16/comments-on-phoronix-benchmarking-opensuse-111/
> > by Andreas Jaeger,
> > i want to ask, whether is any plan to speed up openSUSE 11.2?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Do you realize that you should really do something with prerformance?
>
> Yes.
>
> Try the recently announced opensuse moblin release for an example of us
> booting opensuse in a few seconds.  The kernel is done in less than a
> second, and the rest of init in another one, and x in another second.
> Right now the speed problems are in metacity and the rest of the x
> applications that we start up in the moblin default screen.
>
> That work will all end up in 11.2.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h

I have never been able to put a finger on it, perhaps Ubuntu starts
fewer services.
Going back a ways to kubuntu 6.04 on an old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with
96M and a 2M video card, SuSE was unusable unless I used one of the
lesser window managers, fvwm, windowmaker, etc. When I installed kubuntu
it was  quite responsive - the difference was obviously SuSE's KDE.
Fast forward to today kubuntu 9.04 running in VirtualBox is the fastest
I have come across, not only in terms of booting up, but also in
bringing up applications. I have not done any checks of what services it
starts. It's certainly snappier than any other VM's including previous
versions of kubuntu.
I wonder what the secret sauce in Moblin happens to be. A cue for
another VM to try perhaps.
Regards
Sid.
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