Comment 5 for bug 677088

It seems like we may at this point be under the 5 second target for benchmark hardware (software-center trunk at revision 1416 on mvo's Dell Mini 10). Once we get some reasonable measurements on the Mini under cold-cache conditions (per comments above) we can make the determination.

A graph of the current state of startup times can be viewed at the usual place:

  http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/software-center/mini10-startup/startup-times.png

On my own Dell Mini 9 (with SSD), I am seeing the following:

  Warm caches: 1.75s
  Using pitti's script (comment #3): 3.2s
  drop_caches and nothing more: 3.7s

Note that on my Dell laptop (2.1Ghz Core 2 Duo and SSD) I regularly get startup times of less than .5s with warm caches. Before we started this effort it was just over 3 seconds. Needless to say it feels quite speedy now. ;)