On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:02:16 -0400, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You should also use cio_ignore= to ignore all devices you might want > to > > use later but not now. The major issue (besides regulating access) is > > not IPL time (though applications like HAL are extremely slow to start > > with many devices) > > Can be order of 45-50 minutes with 16K devices. Ugh. Do you know what takes so long (HAL?) FWIW, in-kernel detection of devices is now done in max. 30 seconds due to parallelism (unlike 2.4, which literally may take hours if some devices behave badly). > > > but system load or memory pressure due to lots of > > hotplug processes. > > Also a problem once we get past the IPL problem. 8-) This should be a lesser problem on newer distros (as they hopefully rely completely on udev and don't spawn tons of bash scripts). But nevertheless: Know how to use cio_ignore= :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
