My poor Karmic boot time

Nate omegamormegil at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 18:24:49 GMT 2009


N.B Bootchart in Jaunty only recorded the boot up to the GDM login window -
I got the 30 second time using a stopwatch.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, I've been bootcharting the whole fiasco.
>
> For your additional confusion, I named my test install "Jaunty" so the
> bootcharts are named "Jaunty jaunty", "Jaunty karmic", and "Jaunty lucid".
> Let me know if you can make heads or tales of it.  I can't find anything in
> particular that is wrong with the Karmic boots, other than really bad disk
> throughput.
>
> Nate
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Nate,
>>
>> That's crazy. Install 'bootchart' and examine it / send it to us to see
>> what
>> is so slow.
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting
>>
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>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > For anyone interested,
>> >
>> > I installed Karmic on my Dell Mini 9 (with non-standard components) and
>> my
>> > boot time was terrible.  I created a test partition and reinstalled
>> Jaunty
>> > to it, upgraded to Karmic, and just now to Lucid to test my boot times.
>> > Here are the results:
>> >
>> > My Karmic fresh install:  135 seconds
>> >
>> > On the test partition:
>> > Jaunty - 30 seconds
>> > Karmic (upgrade) - 135 seconds
>> > Lucid Alpha 1 (upgrade) - 25 seconds
>> >
>> > The good news is that I don't appear to have a hardware problem, and
>> Lucid
>> > is already faster than Jaunty.  The bad news is that Lucid freezes up
>> > randomly after a minute or so (which is to be expected) so I'm still
>> stuck
>> > with 135 second boots for another 5 months.
>> >
>> > Nate
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