The initial load time is a result of at least three factors.
1. How fast the information can travel from the disk to RAM. Disk speed, the type of disk interface, and even the processor(s) can affect this.
2. How much RAM you have. While information is being loaded into RAM, your computer may "run out of room" and will need to then "cache" that information that it would have prefered to keep in RAM back to a swap file on the disk. Now the bottleneck is working in both directions.
3. CPU/GPU. Both the computer's processor and the graphics processor (which I am lumping together against my better judgment) do the hard work of transfering data and drawing it on screen. (Edit: There are even more variables depending on RAM on the video card or devoted to the GPU.)
All of these factors and a combination will generate differences in load time.
Now then to answer your question: No. I am seeing less than a minute from double click to ready to go. That increases when my computer is already busy doing other things, but without doing a restart this second I believe I typically load for about 40 seconds.
I am very happy with the performance of L5. However, it takes about a minute to fully boot up. Is this about what others are experiencing. I have around 2800 resources.
It takes about 10-15 seconds to boot with 12 resources open, and I have 3143 resources. It depends on your computer hardware, internet speed (if your first page is home page, but i don't run home page); SSD adds much better performance.
Specs are listed in my signature. I recently bought a new laptop primarily for Logos. Processor is boosted from 2.4 ghz to 3.2 and I have 8gb of RAM and 1GB of video RAM.
Second the SSD. You can have a great processor but you will be slowed down alot by the hard drive. Laptop hard drives spin pretty slowly incomparison to the blazing speed of an SSD drive
Total other thing: it will open a lot faster when you do not start with loading the homepage. Unless you really like it ik can save quite some time.
I get the sound at 13.8 seconds after click and my layout is loaded and the spinning synchronization arrows are done by 43.5 seconds.
i7 with 8GB Ram and a Hybrid SSD/7200RPM Drive running Win7 64 bit.
I get one minute 25 seconds from start until full home page load.
4017 resources, 2GB, AMD dual core 2.6 Ghz, 320 GB 7200 RPM
Alright I decided to give it the real test.
I performed a system restart, logged in to my account and walked away long enough to get another [c] while the disk finished up and stopped thrashing.
Once the system was completely calm I started a stopwatch and hit the icon more or less simultaneously.
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FWIW, shutting down Logos 5, waiting about fifteen seconds and doing it again:
I get signing in about 5s in then quickly to sync which takes about 10s, UI is up within another 5s and home page is loaded less than 5s after that. That makes a total of 20-25s from the time I click the icon until I can browse the start page stuff.
I have less RAM than you, but my system is entirely on an SSD.
What speed is your internet? Maybe there is a bottleneck there.
I'm not sure why the number of resources in your collection would matter unless you had a lot of them load in a default layout.
Full restart after first start is 9 seconds here.
Dave Hooton has shared over the years re. using CCleaner and Defragler! I use these two free items every few days. Am shocked at how fast L5 is, even when I`m starting it with a lot of resources open. I have almost exactly the same power and set-up as the OP except I still have Windows 7.
It just blazes into life at startup when I only have a couple of resources open. I`ve been keeping the number of my layouts down to a reasonable level; and I think that makes a great difference also! I am a really Happy, Happy camper!
Peace to all! and ... Always Joy in the Lord! *smile*
Just for fun I ran a speed test with a server in Bellingham, WA and got even better speeds that I did locally. [:O]
Now I'm embarrassed for posting this in the first place. Closed and rebooted L5 twice and it took 13 seconds and 12 seconds. I hereby change the title of this post to L5 is fast. . . with no exceptions! [8-|]
ahh... since it is a new computer could just be SuperFetch (or whatever MS is currently calling it) is still learning your usage patterns
