Snow Leopard boot times slower? (POLL)

[Some Guy 555]

In Leopard I had times where I could boot in almost 15 seconds, some times at 21 seconds if it was running slow and for the most part it was 17 seconds. All these times btw are recorded at time of power button press to desktop screen.

In Snow Leopard the times have almost doubled.... Fast boot in Snow Leopard is around 20-30 seconds for me now and a slow boot (which just happened) took a little over 40 seconds.

Anyone else experiencing this? Besides the boot times SL feels a lot faster in system responsiveness than Leopard.

 

[AdeFowler]

...or just shut the lid, and wake up in a fraction of a second

 

[paulsalter]

...or just shut the lid, and wake up in a fraction of a second

Thats what i do, just use sleep mode

As for starting up, only restarted a couple of times in the last week and dont notice any great improvements, virtually the same

 

[Some Guy 555]

...or just shut the lid, and wake up in a fraction of a second

I normally do this, because in the environment I'm in it makes sense by saving time to just put it to sleep and wake up instantly however when I'm at home I sometimes like to restart into my windows partition (via bootcamp) to play some games (oblivion/fallout 3).

BTW: I am using the 32 bit kernel instead of the 64bit one (32 bit is default).

 

[Steve686]

Fresh install from an erased HDD, or an upgrade install.

From an upgrade, I got an average of one minute boots.

From a fresh install, I now get 35 seconds on average.

Oh, and don't use a Time Machine restore after a fresh install. It seems to affect overall system performance.

 

[reservedegotist]

Hmm, my upgrade seems to have gone fine, although I do not have too many customizations. It takes anywhere between 13-20 seconds to boot, and shutdown...let's just say it's faster than force shutdown (by holding the power button).

 

[Daveoc64]

It's definitely slower for me.

Shut Down is usually faster, but I care less about that.

 

[Burnsey]

It took me 1 minute and 30 seconds to boot with Leopard, SL does it in ~30 seconds, so I am quite satisfied.