On 11/16/05, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dimi Paun (dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > This is offtopic, but I think in general we have a problem > > with startup times. For example, starting gedit (which is > > marketed as a fast and simple text editor) on my fairly > > decent 3GHz CPU/1GB RAM box takes a *few* seconds. This > > should be instantaneous (<300ms). I think we're about 100 > > slower then we should be. And this is in an area that people > > care about startup times more than for boot. I wouldn't > > be surprised to have similar inefficiencies during init. > > Disk seek. To elaborate.. there are factors beyond your CPU/memory. What kind of diskdrive do you have? What is its transfer rates? What are it hit/miss rates? How is the layout of the disk optimized for disk-seek? A lot of commodity disk-drives are sub-par on these areas. This means that programs will slow down because you are spending a lot of time waiting for the disk-drive to give you bits because it keeps plugging up its cache or not able to get various items off disk as fast as advertised. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
