Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 14th Jul 2005 11:52 UTC
"I read with some interest about the GNOME startup bounty. As Stephen O'Grady pointed out, this problem is indeed perfect for DTrace. To get a feel for the problem, I wrote a very simple D script." Read more...
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2005-07-06
Does anyone know if specific patches are applied to the login sequence in Ubuntu? I have Hoary running on a P4 and it appears to only take a few seconds from GDM to desktop.
I suppose I do have the luxury of a bucket load of RAM though...
I think loading things in parallel has to be the way to go, as well as mmap caches for the regularly used items - it seems crazy the "x" of close is loaded every time it is used!