slower startup with 4.6?

[Auke Kok]

Auke Kok wrote:
> Miek Gieben wrote:
>> [ Quoting Auke Kok in "Re: slower startup with 4.6?"... ]
>>>> One other, but related question, would it be possible to
>>>> make xfce 4.6 start up in 1 or 2 seconds?
>>> care to post the bootcharts somewhere? I'd like to see them :)
>>
>> yes, of course. I've put the file at:
>> http://miek.nl/files/intrepid-20090315-2.png
>>
>> It's a complete run with auto-login from gdm which
>> starts xfce where I open a terminal to kill bootchart.
> 
> without the bootchart from 4.4.x, you can't say anything. can you please 
> post the bootchart from before your upgrade to 4.6 as well?

On second thought, don't bother. Your startup time is such a gigantic 
failure that it's unlikely to even get any significance out of any 
comparison.

First of all, sreadahead seems to be completely botched by ubuntu (I 
maintain sreadahead) and runs twice? But it doesn't actually do 
anything, which is likely to the fact that you run a 2.6.27 kernel, 
which misses a tonload of async patches to start with. Then your box 
spends the first 21 seconds after kernel boot doing modprobe and 
hal/udev stuff, which is insane. Then another 10 seconds doing portmap, 
nfs, smtpd(?!). When does the hurting stop??? By the time your desktop 
start (gnome support enabled?!), A normal netbook user would have 
already sent in his box for returns to the vendor, and gotten a refund 
in the same time :)

There's just not enough *right* about this installation to make any 
sense whether xfce 4.6 starts slower than 4.4.

is this a default ubunto 8.10 install? cuz that's just sad...

Auke