Fedora 18 Systemd Performance Intel Core i5-2520M testing with a HP 161C and Intel Gen6 Mobile on Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Fedora 18: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: HP 161C, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160, Graphics: Intel Gen6 Mobile (1300MHz), Audio: IDT 92HD81B1X5, Network: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 OS: Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow), Kernel: 3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.9.4, Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, Display Driver: intel 2.20.14, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 20121109, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 Systemd Kernel Boot Time Phoronix Test Suite v4.4.0m0 ms < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 . 2871 |============================================================= Systemd Total Boot Time Phoronix Test Suite v4.4.0m0 ms < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 . 40451 |============================================================ Systemd Userspace Boot Time Phoronix Test Suite v4.4.0m0 ms < Lower Is Better Fedora 18 . 34675 |============================================================