Lubuntu slow boot

[trelek]

Hello.
Last night i decided to install Lubuntu 16 on my old laptop (HP Compaq 2710p) that I'm using when i travel.
Like in the tittle my boot time is very long. I tried the newest version Lubuntu 18 but boot time was around 4 min. After installing Lubuntu 16 its around 2 min. Sometimes it boots faster like now

systemd-analyze:
Startup finished in 16.355s (kernel) + 51.311s (userspace) = 1min 7.666s

systemd-analyze blame:
22.022s plymouth-read-write.service
16.376s dev-sda1.device
11.137s systemd-udevd.service
6.932s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
4.362s networking.service
3.290s NetworkManager.service
2.229s keyboard-setup.service
2.173s ModemManager.service
2.047s thermald.service
1.983s ufw.service
1.944s systemd-journald.service
1.574s udisks2.service
1.511s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
1.474s accounts-daemon.service
1.205s upower.service
1.073s apparmor.service
946ms dev-hugepages.mount
944ms dev-mqueue.mount
890ms gpu-manager.service
755ms resolvconf.service
739ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
586ms lightdm.service
533ms grub-common.service
524ms console-setup.service
499ms dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d80f3a3e\x2d4b4d\x2d462e\x2dabf6\x2df757250b8da6.s wap
435ms plymouth-start.service
396ms rtkit-daemon.service
391ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
384ms tlp.service
372ms kmod-static-nodes.service
364ms systemd-modules-load.service
350ms systemd-update-utmp.service
342ms systemd-sysctl.service
281ms polkitd.service
271ms irqbalance.service
263ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
224ms ntp.service
215ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
212ms sys-kernel-config.mount
203ms rsyslog.service
165ms systemd-logind.service
161ms systemd-journal-flush.service
156ms apport.service
154ms setvtrgb.service
134ms ondemand.service
88ms user@1000.service
71ms pppd-dns.service

So my question is: what can I do to boot it faster?

[Autodave]

Do you know the specs of that laptop? I found several listed online and none of them are speed demons by any measure (they originally came with Win XP on them). However, I would expect Lubuntu to boot a little quicker that what you are getting right now.

The top speed I see is 1.2 ghz (1.02 standard), RAM at 1 gig, PATA HD. You may not get much quicker than what you are getting right now.

[mörgæs]

In order to see the hardware, please copy

sudo lshw -sanitize > lshw.txt

and paste it to the command line, run it and post lshw.txt in CODE tags.

[SL0ltMJGyh]

Also, how large is your swap partition? After all you are running on an old laptop with an hdd and swap space will only slow down your machine. Type "swapon --summary" to figure out how much swap space you have set up.

Quick swap explanation: when you're out of memory, Linux sends processes that are hogging memory and not doing anything to swap space- a partition on your hard disk which functions as longer term storage for RAM. Due to this, you will see significantly slower speeds when using swap space. your best bet is to disable it if you haven't already.

Article on Disabling Swap Space: https://askubuntu.com/questions/2148...i-disable-swap