On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:36, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
We do a lot of email at work.. about 3 billion pieces of email a week pass through the system. Which is why I was hoping someone had seen this. I've narrowed it down to something in the SUSE 9.2 boot scripts but got board looking for it. I just have the systems mount this slice after the OS is booted via a custom script. :)
Are you serious? 3 billion? That's 5000/sec! Average!!! Might want to look at bootchart (google for it). Follow the instructions, and you'll get a gantt-chart style image of your boot process. From there you should be able to isolate the problem. Looking at my own chart of a SuSE install it looks to be doing something significant running the fsck.reiserfs process with my comparitively small partitions. On 1.8TB I guess the impact will be much bigger. If this is the case, you can bypass this with fastboot which should speed things up. Though you might want to schedule regular fsck's depending on paranoia level. -- Steve Boddy