On 04/11/16 01:26 AM, James Bromberger wrote: > Hello all, > > Some of you may recall a 30 second delay for xen_fb_frontend when > booting Debian in EC2[1]. It appears that this is now starting to > resolve - if you launch (or stop/start) an instance and get a newer BIOS > from the hypervisor. Today I took a running instance and used dmidecode > to look at the BIOS, and saw:
> __snip__ > Looking at the dmesg shows that xen_fb_frontend did not pause for 30 > seconds. > > I ran this stop+pause+start (again, not a reboot/restart) in us-east-1. > New instances I have launched in US-East-1 appear to also have this > newer bios. It may not be uniformly available worldwide at this time > (appears this update has not yet hit eu-west-1), but it may be worth > trying this if this particularly affects you. No changes were required > on the running instance for this. > > > James > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/09/msg00305.html > > Nice, thanks for finding that ! For me the problem with longer boots was about new instances in autoscaling groups, meaning longer reaction to scaling event. Now it is 30 seconds faster ! Thanks Tim
