Re: Slow boot

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>]

Richard Hector composed on 2019-01-11 14:03 (UTC+1300):

> This machine is taking ages to boot.

> It's a fresh install.

> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang:

> [    2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
> [    2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23)
> initialised: dm-d
> evel@redhat.com
> [    2.978281] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
> [  121.459392] md: linear personality registered for level -1
> [  121.460391] md: multipath personality registered for level -4
> [  121.461444] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0

> I have started wondering recently about the hardware - could I have a
> clock problem?

> None of the other 'clocksource' entries have a similar lag, and there's
> no similar lag at that point on my desktop.

> Do I need to provide more context, or do more diagnostics?

Possibly kernel-parameters.txt has a clock suggestion, maybe

	clocksource=hpet

or forcing tsc from cmdline would switch to it at a more opportune time?
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