Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753963AbYKFP46 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:56:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750908AbYKFP4u (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:56:50 -0500 Received: from molly.corsac.net ([81.57.48.219]:59701 "EHLO molly.corsac.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbYKFP4u (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:56:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:56:46 +0100 From: Yves-Alexis Perez To: Tony Vroon Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Bernhard Schmidt , Frans Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Carlos R. Mafra" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Long delays and keystrokes required - related to disk encryption? Message-ID: <20081106155646.GC16969@corsac.net> References: <20081105020340.GA6399@schleppi.birkenwald.de> <4911B829.8040701@linux.intel.com> <1225986063.4234.10.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1225986063.4234.10.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 20 On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:41:03PM +0000, Tony Vroon wrote: > As an observation, things seem to slow down as the init process in > initramfs is loaded. First I thought it was waiting for user input in > the initramfs that slowed down, but it turned out I needed to hit Ctrl > once to get to even get to the input prompt. > Enabling an initramfs and sticking a simple script in there may suffice. > All machines affected appear to be recent (ICH7/8/9) Centrino laptops > with HPET enabled, if that helps. In my case, it seems to slow down as soon as the luks volume is opened and the root fs is mounted. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- 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/