Bug 10027

Summary:	Slower boot times in Mageia 3 compared to version 1 and 2
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Philippe Leblanc <philippel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	systemd-195-22.mga3.src.rpm,dkms-2.0.19-30.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Bootchart for dm1z on MGA3RC

Description Philippe Leblanc 2013-05-08 19:32:45 CEST

Description of problem:
The move to systemd was supposed to improve boot times with it's more modern design. However, I'm seeing slow boot times on my system with one boot clocked at 79 seconds from the time I press enter in GRUB to gdm being loaded. That number looks high to me. I installed bootchart and have a chart showing data for one boot. I'm not sure how to read this correctly, but looks like dkms is taking a very long time to run. My system is a bit modest (running an AMD E2-1800 apu) but I'd expect boot times to be closer to 45 seconds or so on such a system.

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Comment 1 Philippe Leblanc 2013-05-08 19:33:54 CEST

Created attachment 3902 [details]
Bootchart for dm1z on MGA3RC

Comment 2 Philippe Leblanc 2013-05-10 22:40:29 CEST

Well I figured out how to improve my boot times. I had about 12 kernels installed which I assume was the cause of dkms spening a lot of time at boot. I unstalled all but the most recent kernels and shaved my boot time to a reasonable 52 seconds. It's not speedy, but it's closer to what I expect this system should be doing. Closing.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED