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I have recently purchased a new lenovo thinkpad e470, which packs 8GB of RAM, 1TB of hard disk and an intel i5 7th gen processor.

I was expecting a optimum boot load time with this system configuration, but its taking 40sec to show login screen and 10sec to show applications after login.

I have referred many related questions and these are all different logs I got from my system.

I installed ubuntu by selecting 'Erase and install ubuntu' option.

systemd-analyze

Startup finished in 4.582s (kernel) + 21.345s (userspace) = 25.928s

systemd-analyze blame

  16.382s dev-sda5.device
  9.707s networking.service
  9.472s apport.service
  9.349s irqbalance.service
  9.306s speech-dispatcher.service
  9.164s preload.service
  9.145s grub-common.service
  9.029s ondemand.service
  7.936s accounts-daemon.service
  7.837s ModemManager.service
  6.792s alsa-restore.service
  6.779s gpu-manager.service
  6.777s pppd-dns.service
  6.777s rsyslog.service
  6.758s avahi-daemon.service
  6.588s systemd-logind.service
  6.559s systemd-user-sessions.service
  6.537s thermald.service
  6.052s apparmor.service
  4.130s console-setup.service
  2.526s lightdm.service
  1.288s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  1.143s systemd-udevd.service
  1.135s keyboard-setup.service
  1.047s NetworkManager.service
  1.041s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service

systemd-analyze critical-chain

graphical.target @21.325s
└─multi-user.target @21.325s
  └─apport.service @11.852s +9.472s
    └─basic.target @11.616s
      └─sockets.target @11.616s
        └─snapd.socket @11.613s +1ms
          └─sysinit.target @11.436s
            └─swap.target @11.436s
              └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-366e2b36\x2d8a0d\x2d4faa\x2da967\x2db56208442065.swap @11.178s +257ms
                └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-366e2b36\x2d8a0d\x2d4faa\x2da967\x2db56208442065.device @11.176s

dmesg output here.

blkid 

/dev/sda1: UUID="366e2b36-8a0d-4faa-a967-b56208442065" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="c159dac6-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="b04418b9-5cd3-4cee-ac32-fedd8e275fde" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="c159dac6-02"
/dev/sda5: UUID="1370c811-80ca-4045-9e4d-c5496496502a" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="c159dac6-05"

And my /etc/fstab file is as bellow.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1370c811-80ca-4045-9e4d-c5496496502a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=366e2b36-8a0d-4faa-a967-b56208442065 none            swap    sw              0       0

I have also modified below files to give a try

  • /etc/default/grub modified GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 to GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
  • /etc/systemd/system.conf modified DefaultTimeoutStartSec=10s DefaultTimeoutStopSec=10s

Still I am not able to get any boot load time improvements. Can anyone suggest me how to improve boot load?

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  • It doesn't look like anything is out of the ordinary. 50 seconds may not be a speed record, but it's also not catastrophic. Fast or slow is very subjective, and sometimes, the only way to get optimal boot times is to adjust one's own expectations.
    – mikewhatever
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 12:45
  • does that mean, for this configuration ~50 sec is optimum boot time?
    – Aparichith
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 12:47
  • Looks normal, boot-time varies, sometime file-systems are checked during boot, sometime not.
    – mook765
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 12:50
  • IMHO, yes, it's quite alright for a PC with an HDD of probably 5400 rpm. Had there been an SSD, I would have expected faster boot times. It is not uncommon these days to put the OS on an SSD, and use an HDD for data.
    – mikewhatever
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 12:51
  • In terminal type sudo fdisk -l and see if it tells you that any of your disk partitions are misaligned.
    – heynnema
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 15:09

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My computer is 7 years old Lenovo G560 Intel i5, 8gb ram, 120 gb Samsung SSD disk. SSD is connected to old Sata 2 interface. Write speed is about 100 MB/s. I'm using XUbuntu 16 and boot speed is about 15 seconds, shutdown speed is about 5 seconds. If you use SSD disk your boot time will decrease.

And I'm using /tmp folder in RAM. Add this line to /etc/fstab and restart your system then your boot and shutdown times must be decrease.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,exec,mode=1777,size=1024M 0 0

And this site may help some issues about that how to tweak ubuntu:

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/speed

How to speed up your boot on Ubuntu 16.04

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  • didn't improved any boot time! Thanks for the links.
    – Aparichith
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 15:38
  • Don't forget to remove unnecessary services and startup applications.
    – kodmanyagha
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 16:17
  • taken care of unnecessary services and startup applications.
    – Aparichith
    Commented Apr 8, 2017 at 16:28

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