On Fri, 21 May 2004, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:30, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > > Hi, I installed Fedora Core 2 on an Athlon 750 with 512MB ram with an > > Nvidia Vanta II pci video card. > > > > After a fresh boot, I timed the following > > a) startup of Mozilla from the panel till Release notes was rendered > > b) startup of gnome-terminal from Fedora Menu->System Tools->Terminal > > till bash prompt > > > > The timings for a) and b) on 'cold-start' were 10 and 13 seconds > > respectively. On a 'warm cache' (ie) start Mozilla/shutdown/start again > > the timings were 3 and 11 seconds respectively. > > > > My expecation is that gnome-terminal is simpler/smaller than Mozilla and > > as such should startup much faster > > My suspicion is that you have something crazy in your shell init files > (e.g. ~/.bashrc). ...or there's something wrong with DNS - all Gnome (and KDE for that matter) applications take AGES to start if DNS is failing. - Panu -
