On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:45, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > [Felipe Sateler] >> As per [1], I'm reporting this against the sysv-rc package. >> CONCURRENCY=makefile results in a performance hit to my boot >> sequence, both with and without readahead. > > Thank you. I hope we can find the cause of this slowdown. > > I notice from bootchart-makefile-readahead.png that there are one > startpar process that seem to run longer than expected. It is started > from rcS.d/. This is normally a problem with some daemon failing to > close its file descriptors when it starts. Can you run 'ps -ef|grep > startpar' to see which process this is? These should be reported as > separate bugs. Not sure it affect the boot speed, though.
This seems to be timidity. > > I notice netagent sleep for 4 seconds during the boot. Any idea why? I have no idea what net.agent is. > > I also notice X.org seem to start earlier when parallel boot is > enabled. Do you benchmark from the kernel start to the desktop is > ready for use (using autologin) or the login screen is available, or > just to the last init.d script is done? The sequencial boot chart > seem to ignore the time it take to start X, while it is included in > the parallel boot chart. It is up to the login screen. I think bootchart stops when rc2.d is done, so its true the benchmarks could be unfair. I will setup autologin and stop bootchart once the desktop has started. I'm not quite sure how to force a command to fire when gnome has finished loading, will check how to do that. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
