I have seen this also for a NFS root. But when I move the root file systems into a local SCSI disk, it seems the delay is almost gone.
I am using the kernel 2.4.20. Jin David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:34:54PM +0000, jim wrote: > > > > I pulled the lastest 2.4 devel tree from Monte Vista's mirror a couple of > > days ago and the behaviour of the boot process changed. Now, the process > > pauses for a long time after the message; "Freeing unused kernel memory". > > To > > make sure this was a kernel issue, I reverted to the previous kernel and it > > booted with no delay. Also, the delay is apparent on both Hard Hat Linux > > 2.0 > > and ELDK from Denx. > > > > Is anyone aware of what changed? > > I've observed this as well, but I haven't tracked it down much. When > I looked into it the delay seemed to be due to NFS delays and timeouts > (I'm using an NFS root), but that doesn't explain why it is so much > worse in recent 2.4 and (especially) 2.5. > > -- > David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a > david at gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and > | wrong. > http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
