linux-kernel - Re: Long delays and keystrokes required

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Message-ID: <20081106155646.GC16969@corsac.net>
Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:56:46 +0100
From:	Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To:	Tony Vroon <tony@...x.net>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Bernhard Schmidt <berni@...kenwald.de>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Long delays and keystrokes required - related to disk
	encryption?

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
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