init observations

[dragoran]

Dimi Paun wrote:

>From: "Bill Nottingham" <notting at redhat.com>
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>>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.
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>OK, that's reasonable. However, I'm not sure we should just accept that.
>How come notepad starts up fast on Windows? They don't have seeks?
>And besides, what libs does gedit need on a fully loaded GNOME desktop
>that are not already loaded?
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I had some startup issues with gedit too. But it wasn't a disk seek 
issue. (noticed that it takes longer if there is heavy network load ex: 
bittorent) . (its *much* fast when hostname=localhost=no network up)
I have set up a local dns server using bind and now the issues are gone.
Local apps should always use localhost as hostname which would have 
avoided this problem.