Re: Gnome login performance

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> writes:

> =========================================
> Gnome Login Performance Analysis
> By: Brian Cameron (Brian Cameron sun com)
> Last updated: October 4, 2002
> =========================================
> 
> I did a performance analysis of how long it takes the various Gnome
> programs to startup on a Solaris system.  It seems that the functions
> that are using the most time are fairly system indepentant, so I
> suspect that the performance ratios are similar for all distributions.
> 
> I generated the reports with the Forte performance analysis tools.  This 
> identified a number of functions which are taking the bulk of time.
> I'm interested in any feedback/opinions regarding whether there are
> speedup opportunities in the functions identified.
> 
> I am happy to provide further details about where the time is being
> spent if there are any questions.

Important information that seems to be missing here is whether the
timings are on a fresh login after boot, or on a warm system (logout,
log right back in.)

On Red Hat Linux, a very large percentage of the time logging in is
spent loading libraries off disk.

Regards,
                                        Owen