very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Apr 2 12:24:32 UTC 2008


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:21 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> 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..
> 
> It hasn't been started by default since March 6, 2008.  Have you
> upgraded your system, or is this a fresh install?
> 
> The wpa_supplicant init.d file does:
> 
> chkconfig:   - 23 88
> Default-Start:
> 
> which should mean it's not on by default.
> 
> Dan

correct… seems to be started by NM / dbus according to the bootchart…




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