Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-23 Thread JB
Camilo Mesias mesias.co.uk> writes: > > Hi, > > I tried some of these changes and they seemed to work reasonably well > apart from the grub2 infrastructure is still a bit immature at running > without initrd... specifically > ... > I'm not sure where to report this? Bugs against grub2 or somet

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-19 Thread Camilo Mesias
Hi, I tried some of these changes and they seemed to work reasonably well apart from the grub2 infrastructure is still a bit immature at running without initrd... specifically * I couldn't find a way to tell the grub2 scripts in /etc/grub.d (10_linux) that I didn't want initrd; I can edit out the

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > There is no general rule, but anything that calls 'udevadm settle' is > suspicious and should be carefully checked if it does not rely on > assumptions which just bet on luck and can't reliably work in hotplug > setups. Kay, Is there a general

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kay Sievers (kay.siev...@vrfy.org) said: > Any system service that today relies in its core on 'udevadm settle' > or scsi-wait-scan module, or any of the other bad hacks in that > category, anything that uses these barriers as a checkpoint to block > on, to do its synchronous actions, should be co

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:28 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Please, don't claim that "udev settle" was a sensible prerequisite. It > isn't. It has no place in today's dynamic hardware. Thanks for the correction. (you might want to talk to the anaconda team, then, because liveinst runs 'udevad

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, JB wrote: > Here it is. No..that's not it.. that is the starting point necessary to understand the udev differences between the two systems. It is not a dissection. To understand what is happening with udev across those systems you have to look really close at the

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread JB
Jef Spaleta gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Adam Williamson redhat.com> > wrote: > > So essentially all that's going on here is 'wait for udev to be done', > > which is a fairly sensible prerequisite for all manner of other bits of > > boot. > > > > The reasons why udev

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > So essentially all that's going on here is 'wait for udev to be done', > which is a fairly sensible prerequisite for all manner of other bits of > boot. > > The reasons why udev takes a while to be 'done' are more interesting and > Lennart w

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... The only difference to previous run is that ethernet cable (with good ISP service) was plugged in during boot time. You can see userspace time, and thus total time reduced by more than 300%. # less -i /var/log/messages ... Oct 5 05:33:51 localhost systemd[1]: Startu

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 05.10.11 11:40, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > [Optimize boot on CD] > > > Optimizations like this are always thinkable, but then again spending > > the time on optimizing CD boots sounds like a lot of time wasted on > > yesterday's

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering wrote: [Optimize boot on CD] > Optimizations like this are always thinkable, but then again spending > the time on optimizing CD boots sounds like a lot of time wasted on > yesterday's technology. Humm... for a LiveCD for forensic work (at least) it should be worthwhile, and

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 15:28, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 04.10.11 19:40, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:55 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: >> > >  13837ms udev-settle.service >> > >  11392ms plymouth-start

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 05.10.11 10:17, Horst H. von Brand (vonbr...@inf.utfsm.cl) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Tue, 04.10.11 21:01, JB (jb.1234a...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Results interpretation. > > > --- > > > Knoppix won by a wide margin, while: > > > - Knoppix having micr

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 04.10.11 19:40, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:55 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: > > > 13837ms udev-settle.service > > > 11392ms plymouth-start.service > > > > > > if you use the plot option instead o

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 04.10.11 21:01, JB (jb.1234a...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Results interpretation. > > --- > > Knoppix won by a wide margin, while: > > - Knoppix having microknoppix fast-parallel boot (based on SysV/LSB scripts) > > and DE with low resources us

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Kay Sievers
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 15:09, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 04.10.11 19:38, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:53 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: >> > > Let me append "The Blame Game". >> > > # systemd-analyze

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 04.10.11 19:38, Adam Williamson (awill...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:53 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: > > > Let me append "The Blame Game". > > > # systemd-analyze blame > > > 32983ms livesys.service > > > 22828ms NetworkMa

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 07:16 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 10/05/2011 02:41 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > You can try rebuilding your live image with this patch to > > spin-kickstarts: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739446 > > > > to see if it makes any difference.

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/05/2011 02:41 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > You can try rebuilding your live image with this patch to > spin-kickstarts: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739446 > > to see if it makes any difference. it migrates the livesys stuff to > systemd, at least to an extent. > -- Migra

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 23:32 +, JB wrote: > JB gmail.com> writes: > > > ... > > Notebook 1: > > --- > > Lenovo TP R61i, Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHZ, Intel Mobile 965GM, > > 2 GB RAM, HD, CD-RW, sound, internal ethernet and wireless. > > > > F16 beta > > average t1=3m8s > > aver

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:55 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: > > 13837ms udev-settle.service > > 11392ms plymouth-start.service > > > if you use the plot option instead of blame option and produce the svg > of the service timing you get a better feel for wh

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:53 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: > > Let me append "The Blame Game". > > # systemd-analyze blame > > 32983ms livesys.service > > 22828ms NetworkManager.service > > That timing for NM is so vastly different than what I'm seeing on

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread JB
Jef Spaleta gmail.com> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB gmail.com> wrote: > > Let me append "The Blame Game". > > # systemd-analyze blame > >  32983ms livesys.service > >  22828ms NetworkManager.service > > That timing for NM is so vastly different than what I'm seeing on my > in

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: >  13837ms udev-settle.service >  11392ms plymouth-start.service if you use the plot option instead of blame option and produce the svg of the service timing you get a better feel for what Lennart was talking about with regard to the udev settle being pr

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Jef Spaleta
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, JB wrote: > Let me append "The Blame Game". > # systemd-analyze blame >  32983ms livesys.service >  22828ms NetworkManager.service That timing for NM is so vastly different than what I'm seeing on my installed F15 system. I am intrigued. -jef -- devel mailing lis

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread JB
JB gmail.com> writes: > ... > Notebook 1: > --- > Lenovo TP R61i, Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHZ, Intel Mobile 965GM, > 2 GB RAM, HD, CD-RW, sound, internal ethernet and wireless. > > F16 beta > average t1=3m8s > average t2=10s > ... Let me append "The Blame Game". # less -i /var/l

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 04.10.11 17:54, Adam Jackson (a...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 23:45 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > Another bigger source of slowness at boot is currently Plymouth which > > also requires synchronous settling of devices (tough it's not as bad as > > LVM in that rega

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Callaway
On 10/04/2011 11:01 PM, JB wrote: > I performed a simple home test, a comparison of startup and shutdown times of: > - Live-CD Fedora 16 beta - systemd parallel boot, GNOME 3 > - Live-CD Knoppix 6.7.1 - microknoppix-fast-parallel-boot (based on SysV/LSB > scripts), LXDE;

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Miller
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 11:59:09PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > And *sendmail* (in my vms it takes up to 60s to start even though I > never use it; and I it does not really make much sense on desktops). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA Yeah ... I was technically the owner on that one, sup

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread drago01
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 04.10.11 21:01, JB (jb.1234a...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Results interpretation. >> --- >> Knoppix won by a wide margin, while: >> - Knoppix having microknoppix fast-parallel boot (based on SysV/LSB scripts) >>

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Adam Jackson
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 23:45 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Another bigger source of slowness at boot is currently Plymouth which > also requires synchronous settling of devices (tough it's not as bad as > LVM in that regard though, but costs too since EDID probing is > apparently quite slow, a

Re: Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 04.10.11 21:01, JB (jb.1234a...@gmail.com) wrote: > Results interpretation. > --- > Knoppix won by a wide margin, while: > - Knoppix having microknoppix fast-parallel boot (based on SysV/LSB scripts) > and DE with low resources usage and tailored for desktops > - Fed

Fedora 16 beta vice Knoppix

2011-10-04 Thread JB
Hi, I performed a simple home test, a comparison of startup and shutdown times of: - Live-CD Fedora 16 beta - systemd parallel boot, GNOME 3 - Live-CD Knoppix 6.7.1 - microknoppix-fast-parallel-boot (based on SysV/LSB scripts), LXDE; note that Kn