ok im getting a few things. It takes 20 minutes to boot. the remounting drives readwrite is where it slows down. after its booted its fast again. Ill look into that.
it starts during the disk checking and does not speed up until the system is at the login prompt. they arfe generic ATA drives nothing special. v5 worked fine on this box, so im guessing its a 2.6 kernel issue.
[ QUOTE ] it starts during the disk checking and does not speed up until the system is at the login prompt. they arfe generic ATA drives nothing special. v5 worked fine on this box, so im guessing its a 2.6 kernel issue.
[/ QUOTE ] cpu type and speed, ram type and amount, nics, hdd model(speed(rpm) capacity), etc etc would be helpful.
its a Shuttle XPS SS51G with a 1.7 ghz P4 512 ram 80 gig ATA 100 Drive. I have disabled the Serial/USB/Printer/Sound to open up IRQ's is there a way to print out a debug config right from the firewall?
If slow harddisk is the problem you can check the harddisk by simply write onto it. The following command writes data to a file as fast as possible: cat /dev/zero > testfile Let it run for 2 or 3 seconds then kill it with Control+C. Look at the size of the file. It should be at least 50 MB in size. Then your harddisk should be fast enough. Also you can try to disable DMA by executing 'hdparm -d 0 /dev/'
[ QUOTE ] If slow harddisk is the problem you can check the harddisk by simply write onto it. The following command writes data to a file as fast as possible: cat /dev/zero > testfile Let it run for 2 or 3 seconds then kill it with Control+C. Look at the size of the file. It should be at least 50 MB in size. Then your harddisk should be fast enough. Also you can try to disable DMA by executing 'hdparm -d 0 /dev/'
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[/ QUOTE ] heck no..i would advise against disabling dma.
remember that its only during boot that its slow. after i can login it zippy again like 5.202 used to be. its something during boot that gets undone near the end of the boot process
