Basil Chupin wrote:
On 06/03/13 17:52, Linda Walsh wrote:
so the game a whack-a-mole continues...
It really doesn't have to be all one way...
On my installation 12.3 RC2 boots VERY quickly and, after I type in my password, I get to the desktop screen within seconds.
BUT, but, it takes *forever* (?15 seconds) to get the Mixer, knemo, clipboard tool, and the HPLIP Status Service widgets to appear on the taskbar; the rest of the taskbar is populated as soon as the desktop appears following typing in the password.
I don't run a desktop on mine, so that save time on my end. But I do run named, ntp, sendmail, samba, (it serves as a domain controller -- well, not so well these days, but still does the file serving), spamassassin takes a while to start 6 of the boot seconds is the fsck and mount of 30TB+ of storage, but when it works right winbind provides single-signon for my server and my windows workstations which are served by this machine (and have their roaming profiles on it), also starts up imap with full indexing that doesn't take 90% of the cpu (Tbird's indexing is notoriously bad after 2.x) socks and squid proxies, minidlna media server, webserver.... Normally uptime is 24/7 with only 1 unscheduled downtime in the past year (I hosed my glibc...had to restore from backup -- does daily backups, and daily snapshots for the windows clients so they see "previous versions" of files in their samba home dirs. (a near 2000 line perl script).... The fact that it only takes 15 seconds I find amazing. When I had a laptop it came up faster and booted to a desktop. Windows XP was about 10-15 seconds and that was 10 years ago. My cpu's are only 2.4GHz, slow by some standards...I know if I got all the kinks out it would come up faster, but it's level of performance is satisfactory for as often as I boot it. kmixer and such wouldn't even work on my server -- no sound and no graphics...(1024x768)... different tasks... for a desktop, your setup is great, but wouldn't work for me. This is just a guess -- but a strong reason why I DON'T want an initrd -- and it would slow me down -- is that it does a bunch of things for desktop systems, that my current boot skips -- because it's setting up as a server. But that's just a guess.... That's been the nice thing about Suse over the years -- has had something for everyone. I don't want to see that go... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org