On Fri, 21 May 2004, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:30, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
> Hi, I installed Fedora Core 2 on an Athlon 750 with 512MB ram with an
> Nvidia Vanta II pci video card.
>
> After a fresh boot, I timed the following
> a) startup of Mozilla from the panel till Release notes was rendered
> b) startup of gnome-terminal from Fedora Menu->System Tools->Terminal
> till bash prompt
>
> The timings for a) and b) on 'cold-start' were 10 and 13 seconds
> respectively. On a 'warm cache' (ie) start Mozilla/shutdown/start again
> the timings were 3 and 11 seconds respectively.
>
> My expecation is that gnome-terminal is simpler/smaller than Mozilla and
> as such should startup much faster
My suspicion is that you have something crazy in your shell init files
(e.g. ~/.bashrc).
...or there's something wrong with DNS - all Gnome (and KDE for that
matter) applications take AGES to start if DNS is failing.
- Panu -