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[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Seems unreasonably slow to me that xterm would take a second to start. My two computers running kernel 6.7 are slow than the machine in the test, both have BTRFS on LUKS.

I tried a cold start of xterm on my older thinkpad with an NVMe drive at ~0.3s.

A cold start on my desktop (also NVMe), 0.08s.

I'm unable to reproduce. I wonder if he might've had a fresh install with some background operations grinding on, or some indexing going on.

[–] Alawami@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What background IO load did you run?

[–] HarriPotero@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was torrenting porn with good speed.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] jwt@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing!

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