[Mageia-dev] Boot on Mageia Cauldron is damn slow! RFC

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 24/01/12 14:06 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> Since my laptop (HDD) is running Cauldron, it needs 5 minutes to boot
> whereas it was taking 1 minute under Mageia 1.
> And on my working desktop (SSD), Mageia 1 was booting in 3 seconds and
> now it takes 1 minute.
> 
> Here are my bootcharts:
> - Lenovo X220 with HDD :
> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-lenovo_x220.png
> 
> - Homemade core i3 + SSD :
> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-ssd.png
> 
> Does anyone encounter the same issue?
> Any advice on this and how to fix it?

One obvious issue (which is on my todo list) is that prefdm.service
currently has a hard dep on network-up. We need this if the user has
network based auth (e.g. ldap, NIS etc.)

In your SSD case, this accounts for at least 25s delay.

We need to have a little service (or something in drakauth) that
adds/removes the dependency on network-up when a network authentication
mechanism is detected.

Not sure how we handled this in mga1 (possibly not at all!).

Col

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