I'm using Mathematica 13 on Fedora Linux. The start-up time is routinely three to four minutes. This is a powerful multi-core workstation with plenty of RAM. The license is handled by a license server. Can anyone suggest why just starting up takes so long?
I saw that you can get timing information from the front end with the command
FE`Evaluate[FEPrivate`$StartTimes] // Column
The result is
{
{"Initializing kernel connections..." -> 0.14},
{"Initializing cell styles..." -> 109.34},
{"Initializing fonts..." -> 109.48},
{"Initializing menus..." -> 109.48},
{"Initializing defaults notebook..." -> 109.86},
{"Initializing defaults clipboards..." -> 109.92},
{"Initializing internal preferences..." -> 109.93},
{"Initializing kernels..." -> 109.98},
{"Opening Welcome Screen..." -> 199.59},
{"Initializing toolbars..." -> 201.04},
{"Preloading Favorites..." -> 201.3},
{"Handling CommandLineOptions..." -> 201.3},
{"Opening Files..." -> 201.3},
{"Do Startup Action..." -> 201.3},
{"Closing Splash Screen..." -> 201.3},
{"Finished" -> 201.3}
}
which seems to mean that "Initializing kernel connections..." and "Initializing kernels..." are taking about 90 seconds each. As far as I know, all kernel-related preferences are at default values. Is there anything else I can do to figure out what's going on?
