On Sat, 2017-04-08 at 08:06 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
On a laptop I have, a Thinkpad T410, i5 4 core 2.6GHz, 4G RAM,
Spinning
1 TByte 7200rpm disk (110 MBytes/s sequential reed speed) I get the
following rough figures:
Windows7 to login screen: 24s
Windows7 from login screen to desktop: 10s
Windows7 overall: 34s
Fedora25/KDE to login screen: 50s (1:46 when updatedb runs)
Fedora25/KDE from login screen to desktop: 50s
Fedora25/KDE overall: 1:40 (-> 2:36 when updatedb is running)
I get similar but slightly faster speeds on desktop i5 systems, again
with spinning disks. SSD systems I have are faster (It does seem to be
disk bound) but still not that quick.
It is starting to get noticeable/an issue these days and getting
embarrassing when going to meetings with a Linux Laptop !
On my i7 desktop (booting from SSD) it's typically under 10 seconds
from BIOS to login screen.
Maybe try "systemd-analyze --blame".
poc