[Bug 808611] New: Very slow loading of initrd
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Summary: Very slow loading of initrd
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 12.3
Version: Final
Platform: Other
OS/Version: Other
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Bootloader
AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com
ReportedBy: joschibrauchle@gmx.de
QAContact: jsrain@suse.com
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Blocker: ---
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This bugreport is a followup to this thread on the opensuse-factory mailing
list:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-03/msg00162.html
With openSUSE 12.3, loading of the initrd via grub legacy from harddisk
**sometimes is extremely slow**, e.g. on a very recent Core-i7 system it takes
~10 seconds, on an older Core2Duo up to 30-60 seconds! These times are **only
for loading** the initrd, not booting the system! During these 10-60 seconds,
the HDD led of the machines are constantly on/flashing.
The problem exists even with the "stock" kernel and initrd from the oss repo
under /boot/x86_64/loader, if I copy then to the boot partition and add them to
grub.
This is our disk layout:
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# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ec0fc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 305151 151552 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 305152 17092607 8393728 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 17092608 976773119 479840256 8e Linux LVM
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The /boot partition is ext4.
Currently there is no further output except the grub screen showing
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root (hd0,0)
kernel ...
initrd ...
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Jiri Srain
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--- Comment #2 from Joschi Brauchle
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--- Comment #3 from Joschi Brauchle
= 5 extents load slow.
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Hans Greif
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