On 11/12/13 10:15, Bev Nicolson wrote:
<snip lots of useful stuff> As with Windows, the standard reasons for delayed boot up are: Unnecessary programs or processes starting at boot-up. Running out of disk space Insufficient (RAM) memory.
Low disk space will only impact boot speed if it is so low than you have become victim of lots of file system fragmentation. On linux volumes this doesn't really happen much unless you have run a busy volume with less than 10% free space for a good amount of time,
As for RAM, if you are running into swap during boot then something is wrong.
I'd go with bootchart though...it could be one thing failing on a timeout, when it is booting where is the time spent ? Are you looking at a black screen, is it in the first stage with the boot splash screen loaded or does X start and take ages to get to the login box or is it from login to the desktop ?
Also I'd investigate sleep/hibernate modes. My laptop has a <15s boot time due to a very fast SSD and I still put it to sleep rather than shut it down.