Hi;

I recently timed startups( on a *cold* boot ) for Mozilla 1.6 and
Firefox 0.8 on my system:

Mozilla : 18 seconds
Firefox: 10 seconds.

I am running:
- A P4 2.53 gigahertz processor
- 533 mhz front side bus
- 512 DDR Ram /sbin/hdparm -qd1 /dev/hdc
- a 10 gig partition ( of a 40 gig hard drive ) with:
- hd installed knoppix( debian ), mix of test, & unstable
- icewm
- a dmae enabled system.
- /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh has this line of code in it at the
bottom
/sbin/hdparm -qd1 /dev/hdc

So, my question is, given all of this information are my *cold* boot
startup times for the Mozilla browsers normal? Should I be getting
faster startup times?

Thanks in advance

Steve

Styvaen wrote:
Fascinating.

Thats a solid 4 seconds faster then my system.

If a person is not a hardware geek is there anything he can do to figure
out where the led is and get it out?

Steve

Steve wrote:

Slow startup times can be caused by things such as an incorrectly configured
network. Insufficient memory. Pairing a hard drive with a CD-ROM as
slave. Using a slow drive cable. Upgrading glibc can screw a system up
badly too.

My times are: Firefox cold 6 seconds. From cache ~1 second. From an
unraided ATA133 7200 drive with 2MiB cache and nothing connected as slave.
AthlonXP3200+, NForce2, Dual channel PC3200 memory. NForce specific hard
disk driver compiled into the kernel.

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Styvaen <abuse@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Don't have Firefox, Firebird needs "cold" about 13 seconds,
cached about 4. (800 MHz Athlon), it is located on some cheapo
crappy IDE drive. From other accords, it looks like AMD CPU would
easily beat Intel CPU. My box is running a kernel compiled with
"CONFIG_MK7=y".

Won't shutdown Mozilla for testing, but then who cares, after
installing Mozilla, it usually runs for a few weeks/month until
it crashes, then I just download the latest version and start it
again...



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Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
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Styvaen wrote:
Im not on a network. I am at home using linux as a desktop with a
dialup connection. I do have a network card.



I have 512 MB DDR Ram



How do I learn if this is the case and what can I do about it if it is?


From the drive to the motherboard?
How do I learn if this is the case and what can I do about it if it is?



dpkg -l | grep glibc returns
ii glibc-doc 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Documentation
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [glibc
2.0/2.

Could this be a culprit?

Steve

Styvaen wrote:

No, spelling error, lead as in plumbous.


Is this a new filesystem for linux? Does it make a difference in ap
startup speed?

Mozilla is the only app I really have a problem with.

KDE, Gnome, when they work ( both seem to be plauged with runaway
processes ) startup fairly okay.

Steve

Steve wrote:

Become a hardware geek? And BTW huh led? Are you trying to remove the
drive LED from your case? Oh yeah I forgot I am using the ReiserFS
filesystem with the noatime option.

Styvaen.