On Thursday 16 January 2003 15:42, Felix Miata wrote: > Gerard Patel wrote: > > At 03:52 AM 1/16/03 -0500, you wrote:
[ snip a lot ] Well, I had the exact same problem after installing 9.0 on my laptop. This is a "rather" old one, with Celeron 300 Mhz and not really fast ide disk, so any unnecessary operations during the login is easily noticeable. After boot completed, I noticed login with root was instantanneous, while login with any other user took 5 seconds or so. As pointed, the "problem" comes from devfs default configuration. By default, devfs will MODLOAD any module which can't be lookep up. See devfsd.conf : # Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use # autoloading LOOKUP .* MODLOAD In my case, this loaded ide, floppy, cdrom and the corresponding ide-scsi modules, which resulted in the slowdown. I commented this line, did a devfs restart, and that's it, all login are as fast as root (as well as logout by the way). So, you can comment this line, but some modules won't be autoloaded when needed/requested by application. You will have to add lines for these specific modules ; in my case, I needed /dev/ppp for dialup. I had to add the line : LOOKUP ^ppp$ MODLOAD You can do the same and list only explicit device instead of ".*" to load only the needed modules and speed up the process (in my case, I don't use my external cdrom and floppy, so commenting the ".*" was no problem for me, but it could be for others, so handle with care). Hope this helps... (or at least explains things a little more). bye
