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[edit] Fedora Performance

This page documents the ongoing efforts to improve overall performance including but not limited to decreasing bootup time, reducing footprint and improve application startup and responsiveness.

[edit] Improving Bootup Time

See DefaultServices for a detailed attempt at reducing bootup time by tracking down unnecessary default services and fixing them or documenting the necessarity of them enabled by default otherwise

Refer to http://people.redhat.com/berrange/systemtap/bootprobe/ for using SystemTap which is included in Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update 3 and above.

[edit] Application Responsiveness

See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-January/msg00141.html for a initial attempt at benchmarking differences between themes in GNOME desktop