Achim Gratz writes:
I've switched chrooting off as an experiment, lets see if the boot times go back to something halfway sane (it's an old machine, so that'll still be some time).
That didn't change things. To make sure things are clean, I de- and reinstalled ntp The first two starts (i.e. the one while booting and the next one from a root shell) of service ntp will take over two minutes with lots of disk activity (like it's seeking through lots of directories) and from then on it's down to a few seconds cold cache and under two seconds warm. If I then thrash the cache again by runing a find somewhere else on the disk, the startup time goes back to around two minutes. So somehow starting ntp is triggering a lot of stats and directory traversals, but I don't quite see where. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Q+, Q and microQ: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org