Well, there were no official answer to this problem and it's been a few
weeks.
I'm going back to slack, which is way faster/more responsive on my
system. It is a pain to see uge performance decrease after an upgrade...
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[Gutsy] GNOME takes too much time to load during system boot
Reistlehr - there was indeed an update today. If you compare 64 and
i386, please report the results, I would be glade to go back on 64 bits.
For now, i386 is blazing fast.
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[Gutsy] GNOME takes too much time to load during system boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151544
You received this bug
I installed from i386 image instead of amd64, gnome loads much faster
now. I get a usable desktop after 20 seconds and there is far less HD
activity on login as well.
This problem was always reported on amd systems in the forum, so I guess
that the problem is related to the 64 bits system.
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Same problem, hp dv2412ca with AMD-64.
Long time to login, no splash screen, I can see the panel appear in
plain gtk (grey, not themed) and then I see the theme being applied.
Overall, gnome feels slow, dialogs takes time to appear, apps freeze for
a few seconds from time to time. I also noticed
