** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021779
Title:
Doesn't cold launch in <5 seconds on benchmark hardware
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
1. Restart Ubuntu.
2. Simultaneously start a stopwatch and launch Ubuntu Software Center.
3. When the window appears, press Stop.
This is a sequel to bug 677088, where developers did excellent work reducing
Ubuntu Software Center's warm launch time.
<http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/software-center/mini10-startup/startup-times.png>
This time, we want to improve cold launch time -- because when people
run USC, most often they will run it only once before logging out. And
it's likely that we've regressed since March 2011.
So, the first step is to identify benchmark hardware. Is a Dell Mini
10 still relevant? If not, what should we use instead?
Next, find some way of automating a test where Ubuntu restarts (and
waits for things to settle after login) before launching USC, timing
how long it takes for the window to appear, and plotting the result on
a graph linked from this bug report.
Then, accelerate essential tasks -- and postpone non-essential tasks
-- to reduce the cold launch time.
To be clear, this is only about the time from launching until the main
window opens. So anything you can possibly postpone until after the
window opens, do it. Postpone reading package state, postpone reading
package installation history, postpone delay setting up a xapian
database, postpone reading an icon cache, postpone everything except
the minimum necessary to open the window at its correct size. Making
those other tasks quicker is good, but not as good as making the
window appear sooner.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Launching>: "Otherwise, the
main USC window should open within five seconds on benchmark
hardware."
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