SL - slower boot on Mac Pro?

[pullman]

Snow Leopard boots slower on my Mac Pro 2008.

10.5 took under 20s from bong to Finder but with 10.6 it's always around 25+ regardless if i boot 32- or 64-bit kernel.

What are other peep's experiences?

/p

 

[alleycat]

It felt the same for the limited time I had it. I didn't notice any lag, although nothing worked after the boot. LOL. 😀

 

[Interpolation]

It seems to be roughly the same time for me. I did an upgrade by the way. Overall the box feels more snappy, although it did have problems this morning as keep getting the beach ball, so did a reboot and it's fine. Maybe I have a memory leak somewhere.

If I boot into single user mode and run an fsck, and then reboot that is definitely slower.

 

[pullman]

I forgot to say - oddly enough, 10.6 boots slower when installed over a RAID 0 array than on a single disk (25s+ vs about 20s).

Perhaps SL has slower disk performance somehow? I've seen posts over at Apple Discussions where users describe slower read and write performance.

/p

 

[rhett7660]

Seems to be about the same for me. Clean install by the way. Overall it feels about the same as 10.5.