Thread: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
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mscion is offline mscion
2011-07-07 , 15:03
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#2332
Originally Posted by maartenmk View Post
@Estel
It's a class 2 8GB card that came with an Xperia X10. I am not quite ready to start repartitioning the eMMC, and I'm also hesitant to put swap on microSD, but I do have a class 4 4GB card, maybe I'll try using that.

@mscion and debernardis:
I repeated the exact same test for starting from a partition from within Maemo, and then a few more times without rebooting. I did not use Close Debian.
1st: 1:20min (loading OO took 35secs)
2nd: 1:05min (loading OO took 15secs)
3rd: 1:10min
4th: 1:05min
Then I did the same once more (without rebooting), O/Ced too 1150MHz, this took 55 sec.

mscion, for the original test I did record the time it took to start OO. With the image file on MyDocs, from within Maemo, it was 55secs.


But after a few days of use I must say that the responsiveness improvement is just as nice as, or even nicer than the loading time improvement. ED is now really usable, the lag is pretty much gone.
So using a dedicated partition is highly recommended.
Amazing what a difference a microSD card makes! Using the image I have on the mircoSD, starting from fresh boot, and from Maemo I fired up OO and it now took about 45-50 seconds to reach the point where I can type (the cursor flashes). On second and third try it took about 35-40 seconds. This is quite an improvement from having the image in MyDocs.There it took about 1:35 1st try and 45-50 seconds 2nd and 3rd trys.

I tried the same with the recommended settings on Swappolube but I could not see any improvement. If anyone can suggest alternative settings that could help I will try them.

While my benchmarks are not quite as good as maarenmks, a source of my increased time may be that I have the math editor and other addtions to OO from the debian repositories that do not come with the default easy debian version and increase the time it takes to load up. Probably adding 10 or more seconds from past experience. This could easlily explain most of the timing difference.

@maartenmk Is this the case or does you OO version have equation editors and such from the repositories? If it is the latter than the performance improvements from your modifications are certainly worth exploring further.