Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 25 Mai 2009 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> Mandag den 25. maj 2009 10:20:19 skrev Stephan Kulow:
> > Am Montag 25 Mai 2009 schrieb Martin Schlander:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Hmm, your openSUSE is installed from scratch too? Because updated suses
> > are always slower than installed. That's unfortunate, but even for ext4
> > there doesn't exist a reliable defrag tool yet ;(
>
> I always do fresh install. However I don't format /home, just do some
> "manual" cleanup. But this particular laptop I had only owned for about 4
> months at that time, and I don't use it very much and there's tons of free
> space on it. So I don't think it could have been too fragmented.
>
> And the application startup difference is really huge, the first time I
> started Firefox on Mandriva I was litterally in disbelief thinking "what
> the f...?!?" .. usually starting Firefox means it's time to go get some
> coffee.

Possibly they simply preload Firefox? That's what we did in the past. I'll 
have a look, I should be able to starting firefox :)

Greetings, Stephan

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