Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:
So I disabled gdm on boot and decided to try startx from a console. I checked the network was up and running including dns. Then I ran startx. It took approximately 40 seconds for everything to become ready to use. So about 10 seconds faster than gdm I suppose.
Is this still an unreasonable delay and if so does this rule out the daemon waiting for dns to become functional first...?
It took about 8 seconds to do the same on my desktop machine running Debian Sid, i.e., I typed startx and everything was ready about 8 seconds later. It's a lot slower on my laptop, though, which has a 5400 RPM SATA disk. The drives on the desktop machine are 15000 RPM SAS. At some point I'll make sure Gnome is properly functional on the laptop and time it.