>>>>> "thomas" == Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
just to share news about this problem, I report my findings so far:
thomas> From: "Guillaume Rousse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# time lilo
>> Added linux.home *
>> Added linux.dhcp
>> Added linux.lis
>> Added linux.nodevfs
>> Added linux.old
>> Added windows
>> 0.05user 2.63system 2:33.71elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
>> 0inputs+0outputs (147major+35minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>>
>> two minutes and a half !!!
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# rpm -q lilo
>> lilo-22.5.7.2-2mdk
>>
thomas> do a lilo -v5 and look what's keeping it busy...
thomas> Are you using reiserfs by any chance...?
Just to make things more strange, I have the problem here in some
machines, and not in other machines. As I re-install machines a lot,
and I use different filesystems each time, I think that it is not
filesystem related.
Last pattern that I found is that it appears that the never the
machine, the slower it appears to be with lilo.
root$ time lilo
Added linux
Added linux-ent *
Added failsafe
Added floppy
Added 2422-07ent
0.03user 1.44system 0:12.30elapsed 11%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (145major+35minor)pagefaults 0swaps
with reiser as root filesystem.
I have _lots_ of messages like this. It appears that tail's are involved.
fd 5: REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK
fd 5: offset 512 -> dev 0xe0, LBA 160952
fd 5: REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK
fd 5: offset 1024 -> dev 0xe0, LBA 160953
fd 5: REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK
fd 5: offset 1536 -> dev 0xe0, LBA 160954
fd 5: REISERFS_IOC_UNPACK
fd 5: offset 0 -> dev 0xe0, LBA 160951
Later, Juan.
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