From opensuse-factory Wed May 27 13:09:53 2009 From: Felix Miata Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:09:53 +0000 To: opensuse-factory Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] The plan to speed up openSUSE 11.2 Message-Id: <4A1D3BA1.1040400 () ij ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse-factory&m=124342980406802 On 2009/05/27 13:44 (GMT+0200) Martin Schlander composed: > But every app in both KDE and GNOME (cold) starting very noticably faster, in > seemingly just about any other distro on the same hardware, is something that > should be taken seriously. > *The* most common complaint about openSUSE from non-fanboys and distro- > tourists is that "openSUSE is slow". While people usually don't specify what > exactly is slow when and where, there seems to be some truth to it when it > comes to application (cold) startup. > People usually assume it's caused by the starting of a few additional services > compared to other distros, but I don't buy that a few extra services can make > such a big difference on a modern "Vista capable" computer. I think something > is wrong on a lower level - whether it is linking, file system, kernel, > compile options or something else I have no clue - but I'm quite sure > something is wrong somewhere. > Like I said before, the feeling of responsiveness with regards to application > startup in Mandriva 2009.0 compared to openSUSE (9.2 -> 11.1), was simply > shocking. I've run *SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva & Kubuntu (plus doz; KDE only) for years, but only *SUSE & OS/2 run 24/7 (11.0 on my file & web server, OS/2 for web use & general chores). The rest are basically for testing alphas, betas, RCs, and making comparisons among the various distros. The two 24/7 machines are always the newest hardware, meaning all the others are somewhere between modestly and massively slower hardware. Startup time is just not something I pay much attention to. It nearly always seems slower on Linux than doz, so I'm used to "slow" startup. The only "speed" issue I have/had with openSUSE that I can recall is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447142 All that said, SuSEfirewall* & *beagle* here are always either not installed, or disabled in all runlevels. -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org