bootchart confuses me more...

[Tom Horsley]

After installing bootchart and booting my system both
with and without the external USB drive plugged in,
I'm more confused than ever about why things are slow:

http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/boot-with-usb.png
http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/boot-no-usb.png

As near as I can tell, these charts mean my system is
just sitting there like a lump for the first 18
seconds doing absolutely nothing (with or without the
USB drive I thought it might be waiting to spin up).

Lots of the sample charts on the www.bootchart.org
web site don't have these big empty gaps up front.
I'm jealous :-).