GDM slow (was: Re: Compositor in GDM)
William Jon McCann
mccann at jhu.edu
Wed Mar 26 20:34:22 UTC 2008
Hey,
2008/3/26 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com>:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:55 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> >
> > On the other hand, it should be faster to log into the full desktop,
> > because GDM is now paging in much more of the desktop libraries and
> > daemon code.
>
> If only that were true. I still have to stare at a blank screen for a
> good amount of time, and then a half working desktop as panel applets
> struggle to start up. Time from start of login screen to actual usable
> desktop is still pretty terrible.
I've added a profiling framework to both GDM and gnome-settings-daemon.
You can see some results here:
http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/g-s-d/startup/
There seems to be a really nasty delay in the initialization of the
volume mixer in gstreamer for some reason... among a few other things.
Jon
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