Slow Boot Process in a Dell XPS M1330 with Opensuse 11.2

eyime · January 6, 2010, 3:18pm

Hi guys,

I have a Dell XPS M1330 with Opensuse 11.2 and Windows Vista Business in a dual boot hard disk.

I was using Fedora 11 before Opensuse, and it was fast and performed well. However I installed Opensuse because I like KDE 4.3 and this is the best KDE distro.

After the last kernel update my system lost initrd, I restored creating an initrd with chroot, mount and mkinitrd from a rescue disk. After first boot, I reinstalled the kernel update, so the initrd was replaced by the new one created in the update.

However, my system is very slow, I don’t know where to look for bad configuration or anything else. The boot process took 220 seconds.

Here is my bootchar,

http://g.imagehost.org/view/0146/bootchart

Thanks in advance.

vader95 · January 6, 2010, 10:05pm

what specifications do you have?

eyime · January 9, 2010, 5:34pm

CPU: Intel(R) Core™2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz
Memory: 2.0 Ghz.
video card: Intel 965 GM
Operating System: openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) with (KDE 4.3.1) “release 6”

output lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

gogalthorp · January 9, 2010, 5:42pm

Is it only slow on the boot?

If so press esc at boot and note the process(es) that are hanging.

eyime · January 9, 2010, 5:58pm

The system slow down after kdm4.

Maybe is kde 4. I will check with Gnome.

ofvergara · January 10, 2010, 4:40am

Please check these posts, they might give you some hints to discover what’s going on with your system:

slow boot in opensuse 11.2 due to a hdd issue ( >4min ) - openSUSE Forums

SLOW BOOT PROBLEMS - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums

Reply with news if you were able to resolve this topic…
thanks.

<OF>

eyime · January 13, 2010, 6:44pm

Hi again,

well I didn’t install gnome because of time, but I found a curious behavior: when I delete all files in /temp and all text file in /var/log the system boot fast, it took less than 1 minute to show the kde desktop.

On the other hand, I installed Opensuse 11.2 back in December and the system was performing well until this months, so I believe this issue come after an update, but I’m not sure.

About the other posts, I think my hd is good, no click sound, vista is running ok. However I will verify with the bios tools to check all the disk.

Here are some lines starting with <4> in boot.msg after deleting those files.

<4> 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000fbc00 00024 (v02 DELL )
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 000000007f66f200 00054 (v01 DELL M08 27D80C1A ASL 00000061)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000000007f66f09c 000F4 (v04 DELL M08 27D80C1A ASL 00000061)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000000007f66f800 05733 (v02 INT430 SYSFexxx 00001001 INTL 20050624)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000000007f67e000 00040
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 000000007f66f300 00038 (v01 DELL M08 00000001 ASL 00000061)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 000000007f66f400 00068 (v01 DELL M08 27D80C1A ASL 00000047)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 000000007f66f3c0 0003E (v16 DELL M08 27D80C1A ASL 00000061)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 000000007f66efc0 00028 (v01 DELL M08 27D80C1A ASL 00000061)
<4> 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f66d9fa 004CC (v01 PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20050624)

<4> 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
<4> 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
<4> 0.000000] DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
<4> 0.000000] Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00100000
<4> 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
<4> 0.000000] early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
<4> 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
<4> 0.000000] 0: 0x00000006 -> 0x0000009f
<4> 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007f66d

<4> 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 514498
<4> 0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32

<4> 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)

<4> 0.000000] Fast TSC calibration using PIT
<4> 0.000000] Detected 1994.939 MHz processor.
<4> 0.000119] Console: colour dummy device 80x25

<4> 0.006766] Mount-cache hash table entries: 256

<4> 0.016210] Modules linked in:
<4> 0.016215] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop #1
<4> 0.016218] Call Trace:
<4> 0.016237] <ffffffff81011a19>] try_stack_unwind+0x189/0x1b0
<4> 0.016243] <ffffffff8101025d>] dump_trace+0xad/0x3a0
<4> 0.016249] <ffffffff81011524>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x64/0x90
<4> 0.016254] <ffffffff81011573>] show_trace+0x23/0x40
<4> 0.016261] <ffffffff815524d2>] dump_stack+0x81/0x9e
<4> 0.016267] <ffffffff81056ef2>] __schedule_bug+0x92/0xa0
<4> 0.016273] <ffffffff8155340f>] thread_return+0x2a7/0x3c8
<4> 0.016279] <ffffffff81060d88>] __cond_resched+0x38/0x80
<4> 0.016284] <ffffffff815536cd>] _cond_resched+0x4d/0x60
<4> 0.016290] <ffffffff81100dfa>] generic_perform_write+0x15a/0x220
<4> 0.016296] <ffffffff81100f50>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x90/0x160
<4> 0.016301] <ffffffff8110170f>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x28f/0x4d0
<4> 0.016306] <ffffffff81101aaf>] generic_file_aio_write+0x7f/0x110
<4> 0.016312] <ffffffff8114bb12>] do_sync_write+0x102/0x160
<4> 0.016318] <ffffffff8114be98>] vfs_write+0xd8/0x1c0
<4> 0.016322] <ffffffff8114c82b>] sys_write+0x5b/0xa0
<4> 0.016330] <ffffffff819d508d>] do_copy+0x97/0xd7
<4> 0.016335] <ffffffff819d49c9>] flush_buffer+0x8c/0xc8
<4> 0.016341] <ffffffff81a01140>] gunzip+0x425/0x500
<4> 0.016346] <ffffffff819d4ed1>] unpack_to_rootfs+0x2f6/0x41b
<4> 0.016351] <ffffffff819d59e3>] populate_rootfs+0x72/0x13a
<4> 0.016356] <ffffffff819d3639>] start_kernel+0x3bf/0x3e6
<4> 0.016362] <ffffffff819d268d>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x134/0x14f
<4> 0.016367] <ffffffff819d2803>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x15b/0x17e

<4> 0.232143] Time: 12:06:02 Date: 01/13/10

<4> 0.235069] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

<4> 0.251709] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f67e080 00043 (v01 LMPWR DELLLOM 00001001 INTL 20050624)

<4> 0.409581] pnp 00:09: io resource (0x1000-0x1005) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling
<4> 0.409586] pnp 00:09: io resource (0x1008-0x100f) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling
<4> 0.409706] pnp 00:0a: io resource (0x1006-0x1007) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling
<4> 0.409710] pnp 00:0a: io resource (0x100a-0x1059) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling
<4> 0.409713] pnp 00:0a: io resource (0x1060-0x107f) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling
<4> 0.409717] pnp 00:0a: io resource (0x1010-0x102f) overlaps 0000:00:1f.0 BAR 13 (0x1000-0x107f), disabling

<4> 0.517631] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 124x44

<4> 0.703872] registered taskstats version 1
<4> 0.704082] Magic number: 10:281:127

<4> 0.909585] sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >

<4> 1.013241] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f66e530 00244 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Ist 00003000 INTL 20050624)
<4> 1.013917] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f66dec6 005E5 (v01 PmRef Cpu0Cst 00003001 INTL 20050624)

<4> 1.015016] Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle

<4> 1.015578] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f66e774 000C4 (v01 PmRef Cpu1Ist 00003000 INTL 20050624)
<4> 1.016047] ACPI: SSDT 000000007f66e4ab 00085 (v01 PmRef Cpu1Cst 00003000 INTL 20050624)

<4> 5.977957] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda caddy

knurpht · January 13, 2010, 9:24pm

What happens if you boot, adding ‘acpi=noacpi’ on the options line in the bootmenu?

Before that, you could set the system to clean out the /tmp folder on boot. Start Yast - System - sysconfig editor. Search for TMP and adjust value.

eyime · January 14, 2010, 3:12pm

I fixed this issue. My steps were:

1.- Delete bootchart using yast. I did this because my system was performing really bad and top show me a 95% CPU with bootchartd.

2.- After boot, the system hanged because initrd was wrong, so I used the live CD to boot the computer and I created another initrd according to How to repair system without DVD - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums

mount /dev/sda6 /tmp/sda6
mount --bind /dev /tmp/sda6/dev
chroot /tmp/sda6
mount /proc
mount /sys
/sbin/mkinitrd

3.- I reboot the computer and create another initrd because the system was slow, maybe because swap partition was not mounted when I created initrd from CD.

/sbin/mkinitrd

4.- I reboot and the system now starts in less than 30 seconds.

gogalthorp · January 14, 2010, 5:33pm

So how much space did you give the root partition, Looks like root is nearly full and tmp is filling it up. This will slow a system and even worse.

eyime · January 14, 2010, 11:18pm

Hi,

this is the output for df

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 30G 4.8G 24G 18% /
udev 1000M 284K 999M 1% /dev
/dev/sda8 37G 13G 22G 38% /home
/dev/sda7 30G 5.5G 23G 20% /opt