On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 15:47 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/fedora-10-boot-analysis
>
> A brief Fedora 10 boot analysis.
>
> Hardware: Asus EeePC 901 with a flash disk.
>
> Time taken from entering the encrypted root disk password until the password can
> be entered (after pressing return in gdm). The 10 second wait in nash is ignored
> here (which really annoys me and should be configurable in /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd).
>
> Default Live CD Installation: 39s (bootchart
>
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/files/f10boot/bootchart-nonread.png)
>
> After installing readahead and running one collection boot process: 36s
> (bootchart
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/files/f10boot/bootchart-readahead.png)
>
> At this point, I recognized that all processes (NetworkManager and newaliases),
Odd, NM isn't intentionally calling fsync() (it's not anywhere in the
code), nor does glib do that anywhere that I can find. I can't think of
anything that would require an fsync for NM, so I'm interested in
finding this and killing it.
looks very much like it... but I could be wrong, though.