Slow upstart boot in 9.10

[Bill Moseley]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Booting with "noquiet nosplash" might give you an idea of roughly
> where the big pause seems to be - the only thing I can see is the
> quiet spot at about 97 seconds but certainly nothing in the 30s pause
> vicinity.
>

Yes, it was enabling noquiet and nosplash that got me here in the first
place. ;)



>
> I assume that if you look in /var/lib/readahead you don't have a file
> there named "pack" or if you do, it's very small - couple of K? If so
> try rebooting but add "profile" after (no)quiet (no)splash.
> Once the machine has completely booted, reboot once more. It's just
> profiled what is required in the forthcoming boot sequence for
> subsequent boots.
>

~$ ls -l /var/lib/ureadahead/
total 1636
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-11-10 01:33 debugfs
-rw------- 1 root root 1664120 2010-02-11 06:22 pack

$ sudo ureadahead --dump | head -2
/var/lib/ureadahead/pack: created Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:08 +0000 for hdd
8:1
99 inode groups, 5300 files, 8689 blocks (184060 kB)


> Do your boot times improve after this?
>

Will check after work.  Thanks.





-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org
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