very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:21 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > 4 seconds in nash. Thats a lot just for loading some modules to mount my 
> > root partition.
> > 
> Btw, here is the chart: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~harald/bootchart-26.svg
> 
> This is a minimal set of services.
> 
> start_udev: 1s for MAKEDEV, 2.3s for udevtrigger and settle, including console_init, etc., looks ok
> S80sendmail: does newaliases really have to last so long?
> wpa supplicant: why is this started? I have no wireless card, nor one configured..

It hasn't been started by default since March 6, 2008.  Have you
upgraded your system, or is this a fresh install?

The wpa_supplicant init.d file does:

chkconfig:   - 23 88
Default-Start:

which should mean it's not on by default.

Dan

> rpm: huh? gdm started rpm?
>