A little background:I use Ubuntu as a VM with 512MB RAM and a 1 core processor. It runs good and needs about 30 seconds to start. Then I used a live cd to try it on a Host with 4GB RAM and quad-core. Still ran ok. Then I installed it. Booting time went up to about 2.5 minutes. (including load of Unity after password input).I thought this was host related. Now I have the exact same behaviour with Mint: 3+ minutes to start. Especially the black screen after password entering takes forever. Also the usage itself is slow. This is a 2GB RAM i5, but I need about 10 seconds to open a file explorer. And about 5 to 7 seconds to open some system settings window. (this is a newly installed system btw)Does anyone has any clue, why it is so low? (Am I the only who experiences such a lack of speed?) I tried setting swappiness to 10. Shutting down nbt, bluetooth, print server. Nothing helps
Ubuntu and Mint slow on host, fast on VM
ubuntu;linux mint;boot
I solved the problem.I used e4rat to 'defragment'(?) the applications. I made rough measures of 6minutes for boot before and about 30secounds afterwards.