Re: [Ayatana-dev] Desktop Boot Speed

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/15/2011 11:24 AM, Enrico Carafa wrote:
> So all we know that Ubuntu 11.10 boot slowly than older version. I've 
> read a file about this and in this file is written this:
> * compiz is taking a lot of time right now:
> - loading lot of .so files
> - heavy gconf use
>
> My question is: why ubuntu load so many .so file? With Unity you can't 
> use all the plugin that Compiz have so why there is so many plugins? A 
> partial solution for the slow boot can be this: remove all the useless 
> .so files from /usr/lib/compiz.

Yeah, dlopen() is slow, but are you sure Compiz opens .so files that it 
doesn't use?

Also; there was talk about linking some plugins directly into compiz 
which should also alleviate some of this - but I don't know the state of 
this.

Cheers,
Mikkel