> There have been a lot of folk who've replied over the weekend. Thanks. > > Just to clarify, the problem is not that the new kernels boot slowly. > > The problem is that the whole system runs slowly. > > Someone said that 70 seconds was not slow for some systems. Yes. > That's how long it takes for a complete boot for me on the OLD kernel. > The 50 seconds time is to get the the first stage of the boot under the > NEW kernel. The full boot time takes around 8 MINUTES! > > Logging in is similarly painfully slow. > > Starting up a terminal is similarly painfully slow. (20ish seconds to > get a prompt under gnome-terminal compared to maybe 2 seconds under the > old kernel!) > > I tried some people's suggestions, however. Removing quiet from the > grub boot up produced a whole bunch of extra messages at the start of > the boot, but nothing seemed to hang at any particular point. > > There's no significant problems (or differences) showing up in dmesg or > the modules loaded that I can tell between the two kernels. > > If folk think that the output of this bootchart tool will truly be > useful, I can give it a try, but this isn't simply limited to the boot > process, so I'm less confident of that. > > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > We need to have something with > > > >>which to guage whether your particular boot time is too long. > > > > > > http://bootchart.sf.net > > > > > > -- > Christopher Calzonetti, MFCF C&O Software Specialist > mailto:ccalzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,ca phone:+1 519 885-1211 x7516 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list In the old days of system administration, one of the first places I would look when these slow down problems would occur is the swap space.. Is it possible your swap area became lost or corrupted? Just a thought.
