Hi Alberto, Thanks for the benchmark. Would be really nice to do something about Gnome startup speed. Speaking as a user, I don't care much if Tomboy takes a few seconds to start, what I do care is that the rest of the system doesn't wait for it. It would be really nice if main-menu and nautilus-desktop were the first to be up and running, then the applications I left running (from last session), and only then should the system spent cycles in Tomboy and the others applets. KDE does (or used to do) a fairly good job about this. Once the splash was over, you had the desktop essentials running. And then, the system would start executing the applets. Btw, Alberto, did you have the beagle daemon or the beagle applet running? I believe those use Mono too, so I wonder why Tomboy makes such a difference... Cheers, Ricardo Seg, 2007-10-22 às 22:06 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua escreveu:
After reading this comparison
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/21155
I did some testing on my laptop (Intel Centrino 2 GHz - 1 GB RAM - 7200 rpm HD).
First of all I removed the following applets from the panel:
* Main menu (I replaced it with the old standard menu) * Tomboy
leaving there the following basic configuration:
* Standard GNOME menu * Windows list * Notification area * Battery applet * Opensuse updater gnome * NetworkManager applet * Volume control * International clock * Show desktop
With this configuration, I logout and login again measuring the time required to show the complete desktop. The results are the following:
* Basic configuration: 11 seconds * Basic configuration + gnome main menu: 13 seconds * Basic configuration + gnome main menu + tomboy: 20 seconds * Basic configuration + gnome main menu + tomboy + system monitor: 21 seconds * Basic configuration + gnome main menu + tomboy + system monitor + deskbar + weather applet + application killer: 22 seconds
Measurements are unreliable both for the method (logout and re-login) and for the difficulty to obtain consistent results, but it seems tomboy is the main cause the long login time.
With kind regards, Alberto
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