Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:11:37 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc2 start_udev very slow |
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:57:25PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 15:56, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:32:47PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote: > > > I noticed that when upgrading from 2.6.8.1 to rc2, start_udev now takes > > > 10-15s after printing > > > > > > "Creating initial udev device nodes:" > > > > udevstart should be used instead of start_udev. It goes a lot faster > > and fixes odd startup dependancies that are needed. > > I'm using 048 at the moment. Works great, but if I replace start_udev with > udevstart in my init scripts as you suggest, it all goes horribly wrong... > > udevstart is just a symlink to udev, but start_udev is a script which: > - mounts ramfs > - runs udevstart > - makes some extra nodes not exported by sysfs (stdin/out/err)
Then I don't really know what to recommend. As the udev startup logic is very tightly tied to how the distro is set up, I recommend using whatever they do, and ignore what I say :)
> So I guess I need to migrate this functionality to my init system before I can > call udevstart directly.
I'd suggest just leaving it alone.
> > Is that list of 'extra nodes not exported by sysfs likely to change?'
What does that list contain?
thanks,
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