My poor Karmic boot time

[Nate]

Yeah, it was fully up to date when I generated that bootchart.

Sync only takes an instant in bash.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nate,
>
> Is your system up to date?
>
> The first long pause occurs when mounting the disks (ureadahead +
> mountall).
> I know there was a recent update to ureadahead. It seems strange to me that
> hdparm is running for a long time. If I'm reading this correctly, hdparm is
> calling sync, which takes a long time. Try 'sync' in bash, how long does it
> take?
>
> For the second long pause, I notice that 'gnome-at-visual' and
> 'gconftool-2'
> finish up just when the disk i/o goes high and work starts going again.
> There also appears to be a long-running 'dd', which confuses me. Why would
> dd be needed for boot?
>
> Will bootchart my pc and take a look. Hope this helps :-/
>
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> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Alright, this one should work.
> >
> >
> >
> http://omegamormegil.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/jaunty-karmic-20091212-2.png
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Craig Younkins <cyounkins at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Nate,
> > >
> > > Photobucket resized the images, so we can't read the text. Upload
> > elsewhere
> > > or attach the karmic one in an email.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
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> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > (My original message got bounced, so I included a link this time)
> > > >
> > > > Sure, I've been bootcharting the whole fiasco.
> > > >
> > > > For your additional confusion, I named my test install "Jaunty" so
> the
> > > > bootcharts are named "Jaunty jaunty", "Jaunty karmic", and "Jaunty
> > > lucid".
> > > > Let me know if you can make heads or tales of it.  I can't find
> > anything
> > > in
> > > > particular that is wrong with the Karmic boots, other than really bad
> > > disk
> > > > throughput.
> > > >
> > > > Bootcharts:
> > > > http://s851.photobucket.com/albums/ab77/omegamormegil/
> > > >
> > > > Nate
> > > >
> > > > Nate,
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> That's crazy. Install 'bootchart' and examine it / send it to us
> to
> > > see
> > > > >>> what
> > > > >>> is so slow.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting
> > > > >>>
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> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> > For anyone interested,
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > I installed Karmic on my Dell Mini 9 (with non-standard
> > components)
> > > > and
> > > > >>> my
> > > > >>> > boot time was terrible.  I created a test partition and
> > reinstalled
> > > > >>> Jaunty
> > > > >>> > to it, upgraded to Karmic, and just now to Lucid to test my
> boot
> > > > times.
> > > > >>> > Here are the results:
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > My Karmic fresh install:  135 seconds
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > On the test partition:
> > > > >>> > Jaunty - 30 seconds
> > > > >>> > Karmic (upgrade) - 135 seconds
> > > > >>> > Lucid Alpha 1 (upgrade) - 25 seconds
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > The good news is that I don't appear to have a hardware
> problem,
> > > and
> > > > >>> Lucid
> > > > >>> > is already faster than Jaunty.  The bad news is that Lucid
> > freezes
> > > up
> > > > >>> > randomly after a minute or so (which is to be expected) so I'm
> > > still
> > > > >>> stuck
> > > > >>> > with 135 second boots for another 5 months.
> > > > >>> >
> > > > >>> > Nate
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> > > > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Craig Younkins <
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