Nicolas Pomarede wrote: > Well, I had the exact same problem after installing 9.0 on my laptop. > This is a "rather" old one, with Celeron 300 Mhz and not really fast ide disk, > so any unnecessary operations during the login is easily noticeable. > After boot completed, I noticed login with root was instantanneous, while > login with any other user took 5 seconds or so. > As pointed, the "problem" comes from devfs default configuration. By default, > devfs will MODLOAD any module which can't be lookep up.
Is everything above properly spelled? I don't understand its meaning. >See devfsd.conf : > # Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use > # autoloading > LOOKUP .* MODLOAD What is MODLOAD? What is autoloading? How do I know if I am using or need to be using either of these? > In my case, this loaded ide, floppy, cdrom and the corresponding ide-scsi How did you find this out? Is there an inventory of this somewhere? I see three files in /etc/devfs/conf.d: dynamic.conf, mouse.conf, psaux.conf. I don't recognize any contents of dynamic.conf as necessary. Most is usb, which I don't use. > modules, which resulted in the slowdown. I commented this line, did a devfs > restart, and that's it, all login are as fast as root (as well as logout by > the way). > So, you can comment this line, but some modules won't be autoloaded when > needed/requested by application. You will have to add lines for these > specific modules ; in my case, I needed /dev/ppp for dialup. I had to add the > line : > LOOKUP ^ppp$ MODLOAD > You can do the same and list only explicit device instead of ".*" to load only > the needed modules and speed up the process (in my case, I don't use my > external cdrom and floppy, so commenting the ".*" was no problem for me, but > it could be for others, so handle with care). > Hope this helps... (or at least explains things a little more). Helps yes, but need to understand the consequence of the recommended action. -- "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." William James Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
