[Mageia-discuss] KDE startup time

[Donald Stewart]

On 10 November 2011 10:23, Lucien XU <sfietkonstantin at free.fr> wrote:
> No problem
>
> I use a "heavy KDE" with Nepomuk / Akonadi started + desktop effects
> I add then "restore last apps"
> I also use networkmanager / kwallet / amarok etc
>
> The startup takes ~45s to see the desktop (and more time to restore apps, but
> it does not matter). What I find strange is that the KSplash takes much time in
> each component. During bootup, does KDE init so much things, or are they so
> much time-taking ?
>
>
> Le mercredi 9 novembre 2011 18:19:18 Kira a écrit :
>> 在 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:49 +0800, Lucien XU
>>
>> <sfietkonstantin at free.fr>寫道:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > (First, this is not a complain mail :) )
>> > I was just wondering why KDE starts so slowly (compared to Gnome for
>> > example).
>> > Is there any benchmarking that was done in Mageia / other distros to
>> > help
>> > boosting KDE speedup ? Maybe the KDE team also have done this.
>> >
>> > And if you have any tips to boost KDE startup speed, you are also free
>> > to
>> > share it.
>> >
>> > Lucien
>>
>> Would you please give more information?
>>
>> With different configuration could have different result.
>>
>> What service did you startup ?
>

Do you have readahead installed? It can speed things up a fair bit.