[Mageia-dev] Boot on Mageia Cauldron is damn slow! RFC

Tue Jan 24 21:13:40 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 24/01/12 17:25 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 16:54, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 24/01/12 14:06 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> Hi,
+>>>
+>>> Since my laptop (HDD) is running Cauldron, it needs 5 minutes to boot
+>>> whereas it was taking 1 minute under Mageia 1.
+>>> And on my working desktop (SSD), Mageia 1 was booting in 3 seconds and
+>>> now it takes 1 minute.
+>>>
+>>> Here are my bootcharts:
+>>> - Lenovo X220 with HDD :
+>>> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-lenovo_x220.png
+>>>
+>>> - Homemade core i3 + SSD :
+>>> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-ssd.png
+>>>
+>>> Does anyone encounter the same issue?
+>>> Any advice on this and how to fix it?
+>>
+>> One obvious issue (which is on my todo list) is that prefdm.service
+>> currently has a hard dep on network-up. We need this if the user has
+>> network based auth (e.g. ldap, NIS etc.)
+>>
+>> In your SSD case, this accounts for at least 25s delay.
+>>
+>> We need to have a little service (or something in drakauth) that
+>> adds/removes the dependency on network-up when a network authentication
+>> mechanism is detected.
+>>
+>> Not sure how we handled this in mga1 (possibly not at all!).
+> 
+> There is /etc/init.d/network-auth which is enabled if needed (probably
+> in drakauth code)
+
+Yeah this would be fine I think... a simple "After=network-auth.service"
+should do as if it's not enabled, then the After should be a noop.
+
+Col
+
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