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Mons1990

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From: Pianoro (BO) - Italy

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 102

profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

Hi, I write here cause i'm facing a problem with the profile-sync-daemon, that is loaded on boot by systemd.
Some days ago it started slowing down my system boot: I have silent mode enabled and appears a text line showing "A job is start is running" related to psd that take 8-9 seconds.
What can be the cause? Some days ago I started syncing my favorites, history and bookmarks on Google Account (I use Chrome in tablet and phone and Chromium on computer), can this issue be related with it?
Thanks in advance.

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Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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Mons1990

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From: Pianoro (BO) - Italy

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 102

Re: profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

$ psd p
Profile-sync-daemon v5.45.1 on Arch Linux.

 Systemd service is currently active.
 Systemd resync service is currently active.

Psd will manage the following per /etc/psd.conf settings:

 browser/psname:  chromium/chromium
 owner/group id:  mons/100
 sync target:     /home/mons/.config/chromium
 tmpfs dir:       /tmp/mons-chromium
 profile size:    105M

$ systemd-analyze blame| grep psd
         10.340s psd.service
           403ms psd-resync.service

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Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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graysky

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Re: profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

Guessing your on a HDD not a SSD?

Last edited by graysky (2014-04-10 12:31:48)

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Mons1990

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From: Pianoro (BO) - Italy

Registered: 2012-04-23

Posts: 102

Re: profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

Guessing your on a HDD not a SSD?

/home is on HDD, but it's a good HDD, less used so not fragmented, and it has never had this behavior. What kind of data it syncs? Maybe I can clean history or something other in order to accelerate the boot (cache is not synced, right?).

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Hardware configuration: Intel Core i5 3.4GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GEForce 9600GT
Software configuration: Arch Linux, default kernel, NVidia 340xx drivers, Gnome 3 on X.Org
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graysky

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Re: profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

You can run profile-cleaner (in the AUR) to reduce the profile size, but 105 M is not a big one.... could be the parallel start up slowing it down.  Once you are booted and logged in to X, stop psd.  Then start it again and check out the time in systemd-analyze blame to see if it's significantly faster.  If it is, then the parallel starts might be to blame.

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nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,548

Re: profile-sync-daemon and slow boot

My systemd-analyze shows psd takes 53s and is the longest process to start.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2014-04-10 17:46:21)

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