<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.16.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:26 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 11:16 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > The first step in finding and fixing a problem is coming up with a > description of the fault that helps you identify and focus on the > misbehaving component. That's what I've been struggling with since F12's > alpha release. > > The sympton is a ThinkPad W700 uber-laptop that seems to "nap" > constantly. An example of a "nap" is a long pause -- several minutes -- > in one of the steps during a non-graphical startup. For example: between > "Starting NFS statd:" and its "[ OK ]" completion. If I don't want to > wait for the timeout, I can generate a hardware interrupt by > left-clicking or touching the mouse or touchpad. I see from two to five > such pause episodes during every startup, but they never occur at the > same startup events. Try booting with the kernel parameter 'nohz=off', does that help? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <stunned> Adam, How in the world did you know which hat to pull that rabbit from? I AM VERY IMPRESSED. :-) --Doc </stunned> </BODY> </HTML>