I read KDE SUSE is slow to boot on an SSD? I have a recent Samsung SSD & boot time is anything but stellar! Would XFCE fare better? May switch with 13.1 due.
The wording seems to be wrong.
The operating system boots. Then the desktop (such as KDE) starts up.
Yes, there’s a noticeable delay for KDE to start. It’s not very slow. You aren’t inclined to go have a snack while waiting. But it is a few seconds. I presume it is faster with an SSD, but I don’t know that.
There is also a noticeable delay starting Gnome, and a noticeable delay starting XFCE. I haven’t timed them, but I don’t think changing desktop environment is going to make a lot of difference.
In my experience, KDE seems pretty fast. Yes, there’s that startup delay. But, once it is fully up, everything is pretty snappy. I’m happy with a slight startup delay, if that helps give me a snappier performance for most of my session.
On Tue 19 Nov 2013 01:56:01 AM CST, fleamour wrote:
I read KDE SUSE is slow to boot on an SSD? I have a recent Samsung SSD &
boot time is anything but stellar! Would XFCE fare better? May switch
with 13.1 due.
Hi
Have you checked the output from systemd-analyse blame? It should show
where the delays are, you will also need to install systemd-analyse.
This system (OCZ 128GB Vertex4 @ 6.0 Gbps) when running 12.3 booted in
about 10 seconds to the desktop with autologin enabled. With SLE it’s
only a few seconds slower.
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On 2013-11-19, fleamour <fleamour@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I read KDE SUSE is slow to boot on an SSD? I have a recent Samsung SSD &
> boot time is anything but stellar! Would XFCE fare better? May switch
> with 13.1 due.
I have openSUSE 12.3 KDE on a number of SSDs (including the OCZ Vertex 4). As nrickert has said, the boot-time and
DE-startup time are different metrics. The boot-time is of course independent of the DE, and for me it is typically 5
seconds from leaving GRUB to login-screen. To load KDE takes my SSDs 3 seconds. So including the time to enter a
password, my time from leaving GRUB to KDE fully loaded is around 10 seconds. But to be honest, if it 5 seconds more or
5 seconds less, I really wouldn’t care.
XFCE is faster in startup because XFCE have less resources than KDE SC
On KDE SC 4.11.3 @ openSUSE 13.1 + Intel SSD is it like “one two three”
You say slow, i’m saying: NO KDE SC is not slow on SSD, it’s faster than on HDD.
Hmmm, not worth switching it would seem then. Thanks all for your input.
Note there is an issue that if you have no floppy disk but it is turned on in the BIOS it can cause a delay because openSUSE waits for the FD and eventually times out. Might be worth looking at.