why my FC6 start so slowly?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 00:12 -0500, John wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:31 -0500, John wrote:
> >   
> >> David Timms wrote:
> >>     
> >>> John wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> redtroy zhang wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I installed FC6 on my IBM R51E laptop.
> >>>>> It worked well before,
> >>>>> but after i update my system with "yum", the kernel changed from 
> >>>>> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 to 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
> >>>>> the new kernel starts quite slowly, when setting host name and 
> >>>>> starting HAL, but the old one goes fast.
> >>>>> what's the problem ? How to fix that problem?
> >>>>>           
> >>> ..
> >>>       
> >>>>  I have the same thing going on with my Compaq- can't remember (off 
> >>>> hand) which kernel is running.
> >>>>         
> >>> Could you see if having your network cable unplugged as you boot up 
> >>> speeds things up ?
> >>> You could also try temporarily removing quiet from the grub kernel 
> >>> line {/boot/grub/grub.conf}
> >>>
> >>> Post back your results.
> >>>
> >>> DavidT.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>   You know, I did notice something weird- now that you mention the 
> >> cable. The first time I booted up, the cable was connected and the start 
> >> up seemed to spend more time on sendmail (then I thought it should be). 
> >> The 2nd boot up (hrs later) was w/o the cable connected; it booted up 
> >> fairly quickly. The 3rd boot had the cable connected and the start up 
> >> dragged on again.
> >>
> >>                 John
> >>
> >>     
> > A problem with you Internet access can slow up any service that depends
> > on it.

> >   
> :) After all the years with Windows, the net doesn't get turned on until 
> everything is running.
That is not true in Linux. Have your machine start Internet at boot and
try to reboot your machine and things like sendmail starting will be
very slow.
The suggestion of slow DNS service is also a good one.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>