Hi All,
So the title says it all. It takes about 1:45 seconds from powerup to desktop. Plus there is a delay from when I click the mouse to when an action occurs; I have observed the HDD light on for long periods of time also without doing anything.
Below is the system report as outlined by Karl Chen.
Any help to speed this up would be appreciated; this is a new install without much added.
Regards,
mikejp56
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System: Kernel: 5.4.0-94-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7
wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine: Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10BC000GUS v: ThinkCentre M73z serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: SHARKBAY v: 0B98401 WIN serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: FGKT32AUS
date: 05/29/2014
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G3220 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell rev: 3
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11972
Speed: 2993 MHz min/max: 800/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2993 2: 2993
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0402
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (HSW GT1) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3 compat-v: 3.0
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-94-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f080
bus ID: 00:19.0 chip ID: 8086:153b
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 0580
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:0888
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.23 GiB (2.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000AAKX-08U6AA0 size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition: ID-1: / size: 456.95 GiB used: 13.23 GiB (2.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel ports: 4 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 8087:8008
Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Intel type: Bluetooth driver: btusb rev: 2.0 chip ID: 8087:07da
Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Z-Star Micro type: Video driver: uvcvideo rev: 2.0
chip ID: 0ac8:c458
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-1:2 info: Intel ports: 6 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 8087:8000
Device-3: 2-1.4:3 info: Logitech type: Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 2.0
chip ID: 046d:c092
Device-4: 2-1.6:11 info: N/A type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid rev: 1.1
chip ID: c0f4:06f0
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 10 rev: 2.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0 chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gambas-team-gambas3-focal.list
1: deb http: //ppa.launchpad.net/gambas-team/gambas3/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https: //mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages una main upstream import backport
2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http: //archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info: Processes: 178 Uptime: 23h 19m Memory: 1.79 GiB used: 924.9 MiB (50.5%) Init: systemd
v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Client: Unknown python3.8 client
inxi: 3.0.38
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14.464s systemd-journal-flush.service
12.858s man-db.service
10.481s logrotate.service
9.365s dev-sda5.device
8.607s accounts-daemon.service
8.444s udisks2.service
6.542s ubuntu-system-adjustments.service
5.893s lightdm.service
5.880s plymouth-quit-wait.service
5.055s avahi-daemon.service
5.053s bluetooth.service
5.025s NetworkManager.service
5.011s systemd-udevd.service
4.461s thermald.service
4.457s systemd-logind.service
4.451s wpa_supplicant.service
3.539s gpu-manager.service
2.797s systemd-resolved.service
2.657s apt-daily.service
2.287s apt-daily-upgrade.service
2.192s apparmor.service
1.796s fwupd-refresh.service
1.650s hddtemp.service
1.624s grub-common.service
1.444s rsyslog.service
1.351s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-D2D4\x2d1FAA.service
1.185s systemd-modules-load.service
1.158s systemd-sysctl.service
1.144s networking.service
1.050s alsa-restore.service
927ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
767ms grub-initrd-fallback.service
762ms e2scrub_reap.service
605ms systemd-journald.service
592ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
592ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
574ms upower.service
540ms keyboard-setup.service
540ms dns-clean.service
522ms [email protected]
513ms systemd-sysusers.service
510ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
453ms systemd-rfkill.service
445ms boot-efi.mount
438ms colord.service
436ms ufw.service
404ms lm-sensors.service
389ms systemd-random-seed.service
354ms plymouth-read-write.service
354ms plymouth-start.service
308ms ifupdown-pre.service
284ms swapfile.swap
270ms polkit.service
257ms pppd-dns.service
257ms kerneloops.service
234ms systemd-timesyncd.service
221ms lvm2-monitor.service
195ms systemd-remount-fs.service
171ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
139ms console-setup.service
131ms rtkit-daemon.service
113ms dev-hugepages.mount
112ms dev-mqueue.mount
111ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
110ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
109ms blk-availability.service
108ms systemd-user-sessions.service
106ms kmod-static-nodes.service
82ms systemd-update-utmp.service
66ms setvtrgb.service
16ms [email protected]
8ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
6ms finalrd.service
6ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
5ms motd-news.service
3ms openvpn.service
3ms sys-kernel-config.mount
You have 2GB of memory installed and 1.79GB available (probably on-board gpu). That is not enough for Cinnamon. Install a lighter weight desktop--Xfce or Mate if you want to get any performance from Mint. If either of those still seem really slow, go looking for a lighter weight distribution--maybe Sparky Linux Xfce or Q4OS kde. Or, install a couple more GB of ram. My opinion only--good luck.
Hello, mikejp56.
For a computer from 2014 with a spinning WD harddisk, the total startup time of 1 min 45 sec for Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon is pretty fine.
The only reasonable way of improving the startup time substantially is by replacing the spinning harddisk by an SSD.
Doing so will not only result in a shorter startup time. Disk intensive operations will also be much faster.
Adding more memory would not do any harm either. Less than 4 GB is not really sufficient in 2022 any more.
Regards,
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