Hello,
the startup of my Arduino IDE 1.5.4 on OpenSuse needs about 16 seconds to come up.
Is this a normal time or is there a way to improve this ?
wally
My Arduino IDE 1.5.4 start takes about 10 seconds. When cached, about two seconds. IMHO it is normal (I'm running on the Windows 7 x64).
Does OpenSuse have the "strace" command?
If it does, try it as it will show you what calls are the time hogs.
I must admit that I have never tried with something that uses Java (the IDE) but it's worth a try.
Strace will output a lot (normally to stdout) so best pipe it to a file and check it later.
Most of the output from strace will be rather obscure but you can ignore most of it and concentrate on the execution times quoted if you enable the correct switches.
For more info on strace, try:
man strace