Why is LM 17 slow?

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Why is LM 17 slow?

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Hi, so I have noticed that cinnamon in LM 17 has been slower. Its slower when its booting to the login screen, and loading after logging in, but then its fine. (A noticable bit slower like 7 or 8 seconds) and I havent done anything to screw it up..... So my question is why? Is it just slower? And another question I have is why is grub hidden? I get it if you just have LM installed on the whole box, but still.....
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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"How slow was it, Johnny?"

You might check out Bootchart: http://www.bootchart.org/

And another question I have is why is grub hidden?

That's news to me.

Edit: I just fingered out that he meant the grub menu is hidden...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/87409/i- ... uring-boot
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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I've noticed that grub was hidden a while ago. It really doesent bother me, cause I haven't had a problem with it yet. But in general all the apps, the boot, and mainly cinnamon are noticably slower. Have you noticed? Especially the python applets. It won't let me pick my custom picture for my main user. I code in python so I have version 3.4 installed, (which didn't cause it to freeze while selecting a custom picture) as well as IDLE.
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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The slowness could be that I'm not using a ramdisk. (usually I do) But I've run LM 16 without one and it was slow, but not this slow...
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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OK, so with some of the new updates, loging in if much faster (but still slow compaired to LM16) and the boot time is still way too long. Anybody know why? is it the new kernel? Cinnamon? A combonation of both? Any help is greatly appreciated! :D
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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*BUMP* So i know i don't have a ramdisk (like i usually do) but i used LM16 without one for a little while and it was not as slow as 17. Please leave a suggestion as to what the problem might be. Also some applets that run in python are slower, (may be from LM using python 2) the settings menu, and all of its sub setting menus take a few more that regular to open, as well as the software manager, and "Account Details" wont let me change my icon to a custom pic, and when i try it freezes, and i haaf to kill python..... :evil: Please Halp! :(
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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"How slow was it, Johnny?"

You might check out Bootchart: http://www.bootchart.org/
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Re: Why is LM 17 slow?

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Hey thanks for the help, but I found out that my hdd is going bad.... :( oh well. Thanks anyway!
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