From: Jin Cheng <jcheng@redswitch.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Delay on starting init
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:32:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D7FEEC3.A268130C@redswitch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020912012457.GX13670@zax
I have seen this also for a NFS root. But when I move the root file
systems into a local SCSI disk, it seems the delay is almost gone.
I am using the kernel 2.4.20.
Jin
David Gibson wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
> david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
> | wrong.
> http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 1:32 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
2002-09-12 1:32 ` Jin Cheng [this message]
2002-09-12 10:27 ` jim
2002-09-25 5:33 ` Scott Anderson
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