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#26 2019-02-17 21:07:58

chrisdb
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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

paneless wrote:

Have you tried limiting your journal size, see below.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … size_limit

Thx, followed your advice and set it to:

SystemMaxUse=50M
SystemMaxFileSize=10M

But I still lose 9 seconds:

systemd-journald[259]: Time spent on flushing to /var is 9.616797s for 720 entries.

Is it normal for 720 entries to waste 9 seconds?
Is this due to the fact that I'm using a HDD instead of an SSD?


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#27 2019-02-17 22:02:48

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

You could strace "journalctl --flush", but the behavior is maybe skewed by the "cinnamon-session[553]: DEBUG" stuff (causing many entries in the session journal)?

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#28 2019-02-19 10:22:05

chrisdb
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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

strace did not provide me with extra info, but it seems logical as the command "journalctl --flush" took less than 1 second to finish...
So it's strange that it takes definitely longer to execute during the boot process.

Anyway I removed the files under "/var/log/journal" and now the problem is gone 

I kept my earlier "journald.conf" content

SystemMaxUse=50M
SystemMaxFileSize=10M

Now if I run "journalclt --disk-usage" the output shows around 8MB

Last edited by chrisdb (2019-02-19 10:25:04)


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#29 2019-02-19 13:01:00

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

ftr, you'd have had to skip the first flush. Otherwise the following flushes would oc. take less time since there's not as much to flush left.

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#30 2019-02-19 13:03:47

chrisdb
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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

seth wrote:

ftr, you'd have had to skip the first flush. Otherwise the following flushes would oc. take less time since there's not as much to flush left.

I did mask the service, isn't that enough to stop the flush during boot?


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#31 2019-02-19 13:33:31

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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

Usually - did the flush still show up in the log/blames/critical-chain?
Otherwise: is /var maybe on an extra (late) partition?

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#32 2019-02-19 18:09:52

chrisdb
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Re: [SOLVED] cinnamon startup slow

seth wrote:

Usually - did the flush still show up in the log/blames/critical-chain?
Otherwise: is /var maybe on an extra (late) partition?

No, it didn't show up

I only have 1 partition.


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