This also affects me. uname -a:
Linux XXXXX 4.8.0-30-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 2 03:43:33 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux systemd-analyze: Startup finished in 11.337s (kernel) + 2min 38.825s (userspace) = 2min 50.163s Additional information to remove if deemed irrelevant: - network interface isn't always brought up, so there might be something there. - tracker (miner, store, etc) processes also hoard resources in the same manner (IO and CPU). - frequent crashes I have yet to determine the cause of. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-software in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1592678 Title: gnome-software starts very early in the session, slowing down boot Status in gnome-software package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In a standard 16.04 desktop installation, gnome-software starts very early with the session, taking quite some amount of CPU and I/O, thus slowing down session startup: http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/tmp/bootchart-xenial-qemu.svg There should be no reason at all to start it that early. Checking for updates can be delayed for a few minutes, or preferably the check for available updates should be made much cheaper by checking whether the existing apt cron job/update-motd stamps for "updates available" exists. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1592678/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
