very common kernel modules slow down the boot process

Pekka Pietikainen pp at ee.oulu.fi
Wed Apr 9 16:24:47 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:23:13AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > Interesting - not had that problem but I do have a lot of swap on the
>  > small boxes (512MB or so) which would have meant it ticked along fine.
>  > 
>  > You can always create a swapfile for the upgrade anyway
> It's definitly a concern for swapless machines. 
> (Like say, my router running off of flash)
> 
> That got so bad Ive now stuk a 1gb usb stick in there solely for swap.
You could also just get more memory and swap to a ramdisk. Evil
hack, but the kernel really needs it's swap and is very unhappy if you don't
have any. 

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Pekka Pietikainen




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