Gerard Patel wrote: > At 09:42 AM 1/16/03 -0500, you (Felix Miata) wrote: > >1505 (64 second last non-root login; 9.0; users > 501,502,503,551,553,555,556,587; all group 501; 550Mhz) > >1562 (89 second last non-root login; 9.0; users > 500,501,502,503,504,505,506,507; all group 500; 500Mhz) > >1470 (5.5 second last non-root login; rc3; users 501,502,503; 550Mhz)
> >LSI 53c8xx /dev/sdc7 / on first machine, /dev/hda7 / on the others. > I think to understand that you have around 1500 entries in your /dev directory. > That's about as much as my installation. > I don't have much knowledge about devfs; based on another post, it seems that > opening a file under /dev can load a kernel module, something that can > be more or less slow. One possibility could be that on your system a > particular module is very slow at initialization. > I have attached a little script to try to test for such behaviour. > Run it as > python test.py > as root, under a console (X Window not started), with a floppy in > the drive, and report the result. > The script reports any open/close taking more than 0.1 seconds. > On my system only /dev/psaux is reported (the script reports also > numerous open errors) > Gerard Patel > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Part 1.2 Name: test.py > Type: Plain Text (text/plain) [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/initrd' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raminitrd' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/log' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/gpmctl' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/adsp' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/sequencer' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/sequencer2' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw1' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw2' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw3' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw4' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw5' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw6' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw7' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw8' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw9' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw10' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw11' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw12' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw13' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw14' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw15' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw16' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw17' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw18' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw19' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw20' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw21' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw22' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw23' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw24' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw25' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw26' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw27' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw28' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw29' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw30' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw31' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw32' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw33' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw34' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw35' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw36' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw37' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw38' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw39' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw40' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw41' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw42' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw43' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw44' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw45' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw46' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw47' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw48' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw49' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw50' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw51' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw52' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw53' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw54' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw55' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw56' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw57' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw58' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw59' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw60' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw61' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw62' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/raw/raw63' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/rd/initrd' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/sound/adsp' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/sound/sequencer' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/sound/sequencer2' [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC1' /dev/snd/controlC1 0.186278939247 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC2' /dev/snd/controlC2 0.185494065285 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC3' /dev/snd/controlC3 0.185328960419 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC4' /dev/snd/controlC4 0.185424923897 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC5' /dev/snd/controlC5 0.185532927513 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC6' /dev/snd/controlC6 0.185341000557 [Errno 19] No such device: '/dev/snd/controlC7' /dev/snd/controlC7 0.185646057129 -- "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/
