-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > "Andy Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] >> In addition, there are some sleep()s in the /etc/init.d/gsmd script that >> are really a bit of an unreliable blunt instrument. The sleeps add 5 >> whole seconds to the boot time. > > Yes, my testing (rather quite some time ago) showed that in all test > cases the sleeps in that script were completely unnecessary.
Great. > [Since there's been discussion on startup time recently, I should note > that there's another 1 second delay built into the startup of the actual > gsmd code itself that is not necessary, provided the powerup and > initialization of the serial port on the GTA01 is done in the correct > order, and a bit earlier in startup. Every second counts...] Yes usermode startup is of great interest now, I think we need to take the same attitude we took with the mount delay -- that we don't accept to leave it like it is any more and will take one kind of action or another against it in the short term. Mickey had some ideas on what to do and not to do he said I am looking forward to. Apparently we can expect bootchart http://bootchart.org to appear as an available package shortly, this will give us some insight into what exactly goes on during initscripts. To discover that gsmd is the culprit for resume I moved out /etc/rcS.d and /etc/rc5.d symlinks and ran them by hand, there's no shortage of things to attack like a mandatory ldconfig every boot. But the bootchart will show us the worst offenders and by giving us a number on each for the maximum time we could trim show us what we should look hardest at. Also the linear blocking initscript behaviour is the absolute worst case, with X starting up at the end there. We need to think about if we can move X to the beginning and make the applets smarter so they block on their dependent daemons / block devices / etc. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkLFqOjLpvpq7dMoRAv8zAJ9yIImOKWCnQK04iiX9yX+GvuuR9ACeM8Qi 32NhcfceFvvDYa8mGleiyoc= =a9yq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
