Re: Long delays and keystrokes required - related to diskencryption?

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2008-10-28 17:44:51, Frans Pop wrote:
> I'm seeing some very strange behavior with 2.6.28-rc2-95-g49fdf67 on my
> HP 2510p notebook.

> During the boot there are several places where I need to hit a key for the
> boot to continue. There are also some very long delays before the next
> syslog message is displayed.
> The boot does continue and regularly hitting a key helps (but does not get
> rid of all delays), but it is a huge regression from 2.6.27.
> 
> The delays seem to continue until file systems get mounted.
> 
> As the delays start at the point my system asks for the passphrase to
> unlock (LUKS) encrypted disks, I suspect it has to do with that.
> Especially since hitting a key seems to "trigger" new disk activity.
> 
> However, the delays happen _again_ during shutdown, which makes it extra
> strange that the system does behave normally when logged in.

Try "nohz=off highres=off"...
								Pavel


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