Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[linuxjim <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 25 June 2004 7:09 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> linuxjim <linuxjim@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I upgraded one of my 8.2 boxes to 9.1, and expected to find 9.1 a bit
> > faster than the older version. So far that ain't happening. I did the
> > upgrade, not fresh install. I had to clear out some older programs to
> > eliminate dependencies, but other than that all seem to go fine.
> >
> > It boots in about the same amount of time, till it gets to the login
> > screen. After that the login process is much slower, when KDE gets
> > to the desktop, it takes several minutes before it is usable.
>
> Here are some numbers from my 550 MHz PIII with a 5400 rpm IDE disk:
>
> - boot to runlevel 5 with kdm: 1 min 36 s
> - start of a KDE session: 1 min 5 s (it includes 15 s for
>   applications like xmms, xosview, ...)
> - Install or remove software module of YaST2: 40 s
>
> > The desktop graphic shows as to the desktop icons, but the menu bar
> > does not show for several minutes.
>
> Try to create a new user to eliminate the effect of old ~/.kde and
> other files.
>
> My experience is the same as the one already reported here: the boot
> time is approximately the same as for 9.0 but KDE is a bit less
> responsive probably due to all those jumping icons, ... It takes 3-4 s
> to open a shell (konsole) window.
>
> --
> A.M.
Hi Alexander,

On my machine it takes about 37 seconds for the shell to come up. No kidding. 
It wasn't fast in 8.2, but it was faster than that. Not at all sure what is 
going on. 

Ill try a new user to see what that does. Loggin in to root takes about the 
same time as existing user.

Jim Flanagan