Hi, I'm doing some work to improve GNOME login time. I'm starting with the user-visible pieces first, Nautilus and gnome-panel.
I wrote a little program to extract a timeline of Nautilus's startup from an strace log. The first timeline is here: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2006-03.html#login-time-1 The big white gaps on the left of the chart are where Nautilus does a time-consuming process during initialization. The bottom of the chart is where Nautilus finally paints the desktop. I think it would be pretty productive if each of a few people would grab one of these gaps, and tweak the hell out of it to make it shorter. I'm currently looking at improving the startup time of gnome-vfs-daemon. I suspect that this is actually the big delay we see when activating any bonobo server (i.e. the reason why gedit and gnome-terminal start much slower than, say, gnome-calculator). Help would be much appreciated :) Thanks, Federico _______________________________________________ Performance-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list
