Dimi Paun (dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx) said: > I think this is missing the point -- we are not talking about some > big database intensive application that needs special handling to > work optimally. We are talking about the simplest application on > the desktop, on a fairly beefy machine, running the most stock FC4 > out there. > > If I need to do _anything_ special to get gedit to start in a decent > manner, something is clearly wrong. And BTW, try to start notepad > in Windows. It's fast. > > I think that anything over 500ms for gedit is bad. Even on a 500MHz box. > Granted, part of the problem may be in the application, but the user > doesn't know (and frankly, doesn't care). It's disk seek on shared libraries, almost certianly. It's the majority of lag time on *any* startup these days, including the OS itself. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list