Hey,
2008/3/26 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)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