From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Delay on starting init
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:24:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020912012457.GX13670@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020911175118.04A9E38E9D@server.weathercom.com>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:34:54PM +0000, jim wrote:
>
> I pulled the lastest 2.4 devel tree from Monte Vista's mirror a couple of
> days ago and the behaviour of the boot process changed. Now, the process
> pauses for a long time after the message; "Freeing unused kernel memory". To
> make sure this was a kernel issue, I reverted to the previous kernel and it
> booted with no delay. Also, the delay is apparent on both Hard Hat Linux 2.0
> and ELDK from Denx.
>
> Is anyone aware of what changed?
I've observed this as well, but I haven't tracked it down much. When
I looked into it the delay seemed to be due to NFS delays and timeouts
(I'm using an NFS root), but that doesn't explain why it is so much
worse in recent 2.4 and (especially) 2.5.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-11 12:34 Delay on starting init jim
2002-09-12 1:24 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-09-12 1:32 ` Jin Cheng
2002-09-12 10:27 ` jim
2002-09-25 5:33 ` Scott Anderson
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