gdm early login

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Chuck R. Anderson wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:59:55PM -0400, Ray Strode wrote:
>  
>
>>Recently Matthias Clasen, David Zeuthen, and I spent some time working
>>on getting GDM to start earlier in the boot process.
>>    
>>
>
>Cool.  Here are some numbers from my system, timing from hitting enter
>on the grub screen, to when rhgb is first displayed, to when you can
>start typing on the login screen, and finally to when the gnome splash
>screen disappears and the desktop is ready to use.  This was on a
>hyperthreading P4 2.4 GHz with the SMP kernel:
>
>		rhgb	early-login
>rhgb displayed	00:20	n/a
>login screen	01:08	00:33
>desktop ready	01:30	01:13
>

you saved a few seconds of my day.
a user should wait  nearly 1 minute for the ready desktop?
and this is a step forward?


i prefer to wait  90 sec for login screen and  20 sec for desktop on my 
systems.
apropos, on the same hardware, 666/1333 mhz, powerbook g4

Mac OS X
00 sec  -  boot
30 sec  -  login screen
20 sec  -  desktop ready
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50 sec  -  vs  24 hours


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shrek-m