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= :)

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