
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 02:06:35PM +1100, Aryan Ameri wrote:
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Daniel Dalton <[1]d.dalton@iinet.net.au> wrote:
I'm running debian testing with gnome 3.4.
The first time I start my GUI on a particular boot be it at boot up via gdm, invoking the gdm init script manually by hand after logging into the console or by using startx it takes an incredibly long time for the gnome-shell to load and become ready.
Yeah Gnome-shell is not quick at startup, but nowhere that slow. I'm running Gnome 3.6 in Ubuntu 12.10 and it does take longer to load (more than Unity and KDE 4.9) but not by a large margin.
Hey Aryan, I'm actually dual booting debian and ubuntu so decided to install gnome-shell onto the ubuntu side and see how long it takes. It is slightly slower than unity, but much faster than the debian set up probably takes about half the time. So I think something must not be quite right here on debian...
I'm using a core I5 2.4 GHZ machine with 4 GB of ram so there is a bit of power.
Are you using a machanical hard disk? If yes, that has much more to do with the speed of loading things than your CPU and RAM. Throw in a SSD in
Yeah... I can actually hear the drive doing lots of groaning as gdm/gnome fires up... However, I don't really know what it is actually doing...
box but with a SSD, gdm + gnome-shell barely take 15 seconds to completely load.
Hmm, always considered an ssd drive maybe I'll do it one day, but for now I still believe something is incorrect if debian gnome is taking much longer than ubuntu gnome on the same hardware... Thanks for your help. Cheers, Dan