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leokolln

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From: Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 12

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Why Init take SO long (+ 20s) to start?

Look at image and you will understand my question.

It take + 20s to become active!

I wonder if it is because i don't use Udev as a hook on mkinitcpio and put all my needed modules at MODULES:

MODULES="button dock processor thermal firmware_class cdrom agpgart intel-agp intel-rng lp ppdev hid usbhid i2c-algo-bit i2c-i801 i2c-core evdev ff-memless pcspkr psmouse serio_raw sn9c102 v4l1-compat v4l2-common videobuf-core videobuf-dma-sg videodev parport parport_pc pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib nvidia ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore pata_acpi ata_generic scsi_mod ata_piix 8139too mii ppp_generic slhc rtl8180 usbhid usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd snd-usb-audio snd-usb-lib sd_mod sr_mod"

BINARIES=""
FILES=""

HOOKS="base pata scsi usbinput keymap filesystems"

I tried this tutorial to better my boot time but no improvement: http://prasetyams.net/2008/06/27/my-arc … up-tweaks/

Thanks!

Lachkater

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 40

Re: Why Init take SO long (+ 20s) to start?

Add autodetect at the beginning of your hooks array.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Why Init take SO long (+ 20s) to start?

try to remove all MODULES and put udev in hooks and see if the problem persists.

also why do you put all module there? try to put only the modules that needs for boot. my mkinitcipio.conf is:

MODULES="ahci sd_mod ext3"
HOOKS="base sata resume"

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leokolln

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From: Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 12

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Re: Why Init take SO long (+ 20s) to start?

I corrected some things and now is better (less 7 secs).

I still wonder, what are those 15 secs (now) of delay to init start?

Now mkinitcfg.conf is:

MODULES="ahci usbcore sd_mod ext3"

BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base keymap udev sata usbinput"

MODULES="ahci sd_mod ext3"
HOOKS="base sata resume"

Different from you, i'm forced to use hook "udev", otherwise the root will not mount, even with hook "sata". Why?

And needed put some modules at rc.conf so supress the lack of them at mkinitcpio:

MOD_AUTOLOAD="no"
MODULES=(psmouse 8139too mii rtl8180 ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-seq-oss snd-seq-device snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-rawmidi snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore snd-usb-audio snd-usb-lib)

Thanks!

leokolln

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From: Florianópolis, SC, Brasil

Registered: 2008-03-05

Posts: 12

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Re: Why Init take SO long (+ 20s) to start?

Well, no interest?

Is a good question to better the boot performance of, maybe, a lot of people...