linuxjim
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
It takes 3-4 s to open a shell (konsole) window.
On my machine it takes about 37 seconds for the shell to come up.
I would expect 6 s. How much memory do you have? I have 256 MiB RAM which is quite sufficient for web surfing and e-mail. "vmstat 1" will tell you if the machine is swapping (or paging). Also check /var/log/messages for messages concerning problems with DMA. I've seen several computers where the default 2.6 kernel in SUSE 9.1 had severe problems with DMA when a CD unit was used. They slowed down extremely, sometimes a reboot was necessary. -- A.M.