Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thom Nowakowski <Thom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> 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
>
> Does SUSE or KDE have a plan on getting this time down?

As far as I know, the KDE team tries to optimize for speed too.  But
don't expect new versions of KDE to be fast on a 550 MHz PIII machine,
the CPU is too obsolete now.  On modern machines with e.g. 2.4 GHz P4,
the KDE performance is quite OK.

> It'll be very difficult for them to compete for OS supremecy if it
> takes winxp 20secs (no kidding, I've seen it happen!!) and suse/kde
> more than 4 mins just to boot up!!

It's not more than 4 minutes - it's 2 minutes and 40 seconds on an
obsolete machine.  Sure, it would be nice if didn't take more than 20
seconds but most income comes from the server market now and these
machines reboot just several times per year.

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A.M.