Bug#484594: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: 2.6.25 (and possibly before) very slow to boot around devicemapper/s2disk initialisation stage

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:17:31PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686
> Version: 2.6.25-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 2.6.25 is very slow to boot on both my i686 (debian 2.6.25-2-686) and
> amd64 (debian source 2.6.25-4) machines.  I suspect this may have been
> happening for 2.6.24 as well, but I will need to go back and check.
> 
> I don't think the following bug is related, but maybe, since it
> mentions device-mapper...
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/27/19
> 
> Notice the time missing between between 11 and 64 seconds.  I haven't
> rebooted my amd64 machine yet with the kernel compiled with timing
> information, but I think it was happening at the same
> device-mapper/suspend to disk stage.  
> 
> Neither kernel is actually booting a suspended image.  But booting
> from suspended images has also been slow.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz