Hello everyone, I have been using different distributions of Linux since last summer and I have decided to stick with OpenSuse after trying 13.1. I decided with this distribution for its’ stability which I have been looking for a long time.
Besides network roaming issues, I only have one more thing that I wish to change about the distribution.
Bootup/Shutdown time.
I own a Lenovo T410S, with 120GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Intel i5-560m, 2.66Ghz dual core, 4 threads.
With Linux Mint and Ubuntu, the boot time was less than 5 seconds, and shutdown time was less than a second.
Now with OpenSuse 13.1 64bit KDE shutdown time was less than a second.
Boot time was about 30 seconds.
With OpenSuse 13.2 64 bit KDE, shutdown time is over 5 seconds(It is very annoying because if I close my laptop lid before shutdown, power-off gets stalled and the laptop goes into hibernation and drains battery rather quickly. Lenovo T410S is notorious for its’ lack of battery endurance)
Opensuse 13.2 64 bit KDE boot time is also around 1 minute. I have disabled the suspend on boot(prompting to ask for which kernel to use) already and the boot time is still about a minute.
I was wondering if there was a way to at least decrease the shut-down time. I an open to suggestions (Preferably tested).
From your story I get the impression that you mean with boot and shutdown, not only the sytem boot/shutdown, but aso the KDE login/logout. Now considering the end effect for you (having to wait for it) it might be rather pointless to give things their correct names, but when you want to speed up things it is rather important to diffentiate between the two where it only to find out which one of them takes the bulk of the time.
Thus first avice from me would be: time the boot, time the login and the same for logout and shutdown. When e.g. it is KDE that takes most of the time, there is no use to study your boot process in detail.
Log-off on my system (but 13.1 and KDE) does not take that long normaly, but it depends of course very much on how many applications (and which ones) you still have open. They must be given a chance to shutdown properly. The same btw on log-in. When you have configured that applications open at shutdown should be restarted on login (or have some applications to start always on log-in), there may be much work to do (like starting KDE-PIM suite).
On the other hand, when you need those applications more or less “always”, stopping them manualy before logout and starting manualy them after login will not make the total faster of course.
Maybe you could, for a test, stop all on your destop before log-out and time what happens. Just to try to find what consumes the time.
As standard, I shut down all open applications before I shut down the laptop. I am using some of the Gnome apps with KDE, and if I don’t do this, I get glitches sometimes.
The most time consuming portion at shutdown is that I get to
user login:
3~10 seconds later, some letters numbers automatically show up after login: then the laptop actually shuts down.