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[Rastislav Krupanský <rastislav.krupansky@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rastislav Krupanský [mailto:rastislav.krupansky@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 9:53 PM
> To: Lenz Grimmer
> Cc: opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] 11.3 M6 live CDs - bootup time comparison
>
> Dňa 5.5.2010 19:37, Lenz Grimmer  wrote / napísal(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > granted, it's not a very sophisticated or scientificly relevant
> observation,
> > but I thought I'd share this with you, since the live CDs are likely the
> first
> > thing a new user is going to try out before he decides which Linux
> > distribution or desktop environment he'll choose.
> >
> > I measured the times it takes the current 11.3 M6 live systems to boot
> up in
> > both VirtualBox (virtualbox-ose-3.1.4-106.2.i586) and qemu-kvm
> > (kvm-0.11.0-4.5.2.i586) on my Thinkpad T61 (Intel Core2 Duo
> T8300@xxxxxxx, 4GB
> > RAM, running openSUSE 11.2, 32bit). I used the ISO images directly, no
> CD-ROM
> > drive is involved here.
> >
> > I used a stop watch to measure the time from the point at which GRUB
> loads the
> > kernel until the desktop is usable and fully loaded. Both virtual
> machines
> > were configured to use 1GB of RAM. Out of curiosity, I also included the
> > latest Ubuntu 10.04 release for comparison. Can anybody repeat my
> observation
> > that the GNOME live-CD is much slower than the KDE one? I would have
> actually
> > expected it the other way around. What also surprised me was the
> difference
> > between VirtualBox and KVM.
> >
> > Product                     Time (qemu-kvm) Time (virtualbox)
> > openSUSE-GNOME 11.3M6       0:02:17         0:03:45
> > openSUSE-KDE 11.3M6 0:01:40         0:02:50
> > kubuntu 10.04 (KDE) 0:01:35         0:01:59
> > ubuntu 10.04 (GNOME)        0:01:17         0:01:36
> >
> > Anyway, I don't know if this is useful or if anybody actually cares
> about this
> > aspect. From a "first impression" perspective, anything above 2:30
> minutes
> > feels like a very long time, especially if there is no visual feedback
> about
> > what's going on - the GNOME bootup spends a lot of time in displaying a
> black
> > screen with a busy cursor...
> >
> > Bye,
> >     LenZ
> Hi.
>
> I did comparison in VMware on my wife´s hardware.
> Intel Core2 duo E7500 - 2,93Ghz, 4GB RAM, runnig Microsoft Windows XP
> 32bit with Service Pack 3.
> The ISO images were used directly, virtual machine had 1GB RAM.
>
> ubuntu 10.04 - 00:00:57 (i couldn´t believe it, but it´s true)
> openSUSE-GNOME 11.3M6 - 00:02:21
> openSUSE-KDE 11.3M6 - 00:01:39
>
> I can confirm in openSUSE GNOME´s case a lot of time in displaying a
> black screen with a busy cursor.
> In openSUSE KDE´s case the time would be shorter (around 00:01:19), but
> still appears bnc# 582375 - An error occured during the startup of the
> Akonadi server, which stucks desktop for a while (around 20 seconds).

Tested factory build 0646 yesterday and no progress for Gnome. Still Gnome 
bootup spends a lot of time in displaying with black screen and busy cursor. 
And on istalled system also. :-(

-- 
S pozdravom / Best regards,

Rasto




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