I used to have a boot time of ~35 seconds till 2-3 months back. Now it is about ~50 seconds or more. Shut down time has also doubled. Before it used to be at most 5 seconds. Now it is at-least 10 seconds.
- What is causing this ?
- More importantly, how do i reduce it ?
My laptop is an Asus U32U – RX012D. It has mostly development software and related files on it.
Bootchart image linked. Another one.
Some extra information :
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Hard drive usage is 15GB of a total of 320GB
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Swappiness is 1
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Preload doesnt work and it has been confirmed to be a bug
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Some unneccesary start-up services are disabled
- Defragmented root directory. No change in performance.
Feel free to ask for any relevant information.
Best Answer
If you want to know exactly what is taking time to boot your system:
At this point you can analyse what program is taking up time during boottime but if you want to exactly know where that 25% increase comes from then...
Drastic but when you compare the two images the differences in the images will answer your question to the second exactly. The first time you do this it will be a lot of work and cost a fair amount of time and I can do this fairly quick now because I also set up my machine with a small root and small home since all my files are stored on a separate disc (so I know I can delete root and home w/o thinking twice). But this is the method I use before I switch over to a new release to see if the new release has improved or deteriorated my boot time and I also always keep a bootchart saved from just after I installed the new release.
Installation of bootchart can be done by clicking the image below: