very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 08:21:16 UTC 2008


Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 4 seconds in nash. Thats a lot just for loading some modules to mount my 
> root partition.
> 
Btw, here is the chart: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~harald/bootchart-26.svg

This is a minimal set of services.

start_udev: 1s for MAKEDEV, 2.3s for udevtrigger and settle, including console_init, etc., looks ok
S80sendmail: does newaliases really have to last so long?
wpa supplicant: why is this started? I have no wireless card, nor one configured..
rpm: huh? gdm started rpm?




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