Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265574AbUFONxp (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265590AbUFONxo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:44 -0400 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:16771 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265726AbUFONxd (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:53:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16590.65369.579162.568380@alkaid.it.uu.se> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:53:29 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Matthew Denner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 45 minute boot time with 2.6.4/2.6.6-mm5 kernel on 1.7GHz laptop In-Reply-To: <40CEFC9E.2030508@denner.demon.co.uk> References: <40CEFC9E.2030508@denner.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 18 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/