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Ubuntu is slow just to bring up a shell prompt.
If I ssh to my Ubuntu virtual machine, it takes about 8 seconds to get a prompt. This has nothing to do with DNS either. I have good /etc/hosts, and have cleaned up nonsense from /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Also, if I do "su -" and type in the root password, it takes like six seconds to give me a prompt.
If I'm already root, typing "su - " (no password required) also takes six seconds to get a prompt.
What the hell is this garbage?
Linux 0.99 on a 386 with 8 megs of RAM was faster!!!
I haven't actually measured it, but I'm sure it's about the ten seconds. Granted, I'm on a desktop, with ubuntu only on a 3-year old AMD64 (2.8Gig, 2Gig RAM).
That is a slow login time, not to mention your boot up time is slow too. I have noticed the slow login but it takes only 10 seconds or less to get to the desktop on my machine. KDE has the same problem but it has that nice what do you call that, loading animation, before you get to the desktop. That's even slower by far than gnome.
Maybe you have too many apps starting automatically? I try to unload the ones I don't use. :)
ureadahead probably just isn't caching your user profile (the stuff that loads after you enter your username/password) because sometimes you wait too long to login and it stops adding to the profile. Try enabling auto-login and then reprofile ureadahead and see if it solves the problem.
More information about ureadahead can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1434502
Its much snappier for me: grub to usable desktop is around 19 seconds, 9 of which is post login (2.4GHz Dual Athalon, 4G/800MHz ram 8800GTS) but on the laptop is slower, probably closer to 30 overall (HP DV2000 1.6GHz, 2G/533MHz, intel video). I have a largely stock OS with just some minor desktop tweaks and I don't tend to have many apps auto-run at start-up. 10.04 is massively improved over 8.04 which I had in both machines previously.