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SubjectRe: 45 minute boot time with 2.6.4/2.6.6-mm5 kernel on 1.7GHz laptop
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Matthew Denner writes:
> > On Saturday I installed SuSE 9.1 Personal on my laptop and I'm beginning
> > to wonder whether this was a bad idea. It takes my laptop (a Pentium-M
> > Centrino 1.7Ghz with 1GB DDR RAM and 40GB HDD) 45 minutes to boot (from
> > selecting "linux" in GRUB to having the KDE interface up and running).
> > It spends about 20-25 minutes in the boot procedure before it even gets
> > to starting X. Yesterday I managed to tidy my front room, put some
>
> Sounds a lot like a BIOS MTRR problem we've seen before, where
> the BIOS fails to make the top-most part of physical RAM cacheable.
>
> Send the contents of /proc/mtrr and the head of dmesg (the part
> that shows the physical memory map) to LKML.

I would have done this ealier, had I not broken everything with my last
kernel rebuild and had to re-install! Kernel is back to 2.6.4.

The output of /proc/mtrr is:

reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x20000000 ( 512MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x30000000 ( 768MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x38000000 ( 896MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x3c000000 ( 960MB), size= 32MB: write-back, count=1
reg05: base=0x3e000000 ( 992MB), size= 16MB: write-back, count=1
reg06: base=0xf0000000 (3840MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1

And the physical RAM map bit is:

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f7d0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003f7d0000 - 000000003f7df000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003f7df000 - 000000003f800000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
128MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
119MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 260048
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 30672 pages, LIFO batch:7

If you need any more info please let me know.

Matt
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