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hound

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Registered: 2010-10-12

Posts: 1

Delayed/Slow Boot to DT, Program Delay

Greetings, fellow Archers:

I've been trying to find a solution to an inconvenience I've been having, and have so far
been unable to come to a resolution.  My computer has been showing a delay/lag in going
from cold to fully loaded Openbox ever since installing Arch -

If I let it do its thing:

BIOS splash to prompt:  32 - 34 seconds
'startx' to ready to go:  25 - 27 seconds
Total:  57 - 61 seconds

If I move the mouse or repeatedly click a key (I use "shift"):

BIOS splash to prompt:  20 - 22 seconds
'startx' to ready to go:  8 - 12 seconds
Total:  28 - 34 seconds

Any program run via OB or terminal exhibits a delay (including something simple like 'ls') of 1 - 5 seconds
after a fresh boot, or after a few minutes (8 - 10) of non-use.

Again, it's an inconvenience (everything works just fine), but that's a significant time difference, especially considering the whole point of a netbook.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a self-taught budding novice *nix user.  I've broken many things and fixed
more and more as I learn.  That said, this is what I've done so far:

- "pci=noacpi" added to menu.lst
- all D's except 'syslog-ng' and 'hal' have been backgrounded in rc.conf
- not initializing eth0 in rc.conf (don't need it right now, don't mind manually configuring after boot)
- not starting dhcp in rc.conf
- reviewed /var/log/messages.log and Xorg.0.log and found nothing of note
- Arch forum, Ubuntu forum and Google searches
- EDIT:  Learned about bootchart/bootchart2 during my searches, going to give that a try tonight

Searches turned up posts with some similar items, but no results had all or even most of my issues.  Most common
was interrupt issues that (in some cases) the resolution was 'noacpi'.  This has worked for me on this computer
when I was running #!, but not since loading Arch.  I DO think its interrupt related do to the keyboard and mouse
signals speeding up the process, but I'm at a loss.  Anyone else seen this or have some insight?

My specs:
[Toshiba NB305 netbook], [2.6.34-ARCH], [i686 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450], [1GB RAM], [openbox 3.4.11.2], [tint2], [conky]

Sorry for the wordiness.
Thanks,
     Hound

Last edited by hound (2010-10-12 16:08:58)

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Da_Coynul

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 85

Re: Delayed/Slow Boot to DT, Program Delay

@hound,

Please post the contents of your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the results of this command:

time xrandr -q

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: Delayed/Slow Boot to DT, Program Delay

12-10-2010 18:07:29

For the guy's sake, I hope his issue is resolved by now.

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Da_Coynul

Member

From: United States of America

Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 85

Re: Delayed/Slow Boot to DT, Program Delay

Whoops, sure hope so