Fedora Test Day - 20 Second Startup - get your boot on!

[Tom London]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at the bootchart, appears that system is spending about 5
> seconds elapsed time doing a "find".
>
> I think I tracked this down to the following snippet from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
>
> # Clean up /var.
> rm -rf /var/lock/cvs/* /var/run/screen/*
> find /var/lock /var/run ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* &> /dev/null
> rm -f /var/gdm/.gdmfifo &> /dev/null
>
> The problem is, I seem to have over 325 entries in /var/run/gdm of the form:
>
> [root at tlondon gdm]# ls |wc
>    326     326    6520
> [root at tlondon gdm]#
>
>
> [root at tlondon gdm]# ls -lt | head
> total 1304
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2009-02-17 09:02 auth-for-tbl-VJxBYM
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-02-17 09:01 auth-for-gdm-Lpopiu
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2009-02-16 07:39 auth-for-tbl-CAt0DD
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-02-16 07:39 auth-for-gdm-zEKwWb
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2009-02-13 17:25 auth-for-tbl-Hhw23F
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-02-13 17:25 auth-for-gdm-CsXMMG
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-02-08 15:27 auth-for-gdm-KVALOw
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2009-02-08 15:27 auth-for-tbl-2JXTRC
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-02-06 12:56 auth-for-gdm-EOu7CD
> [root at tlondon gdm]#
>
> Oldest entries:
>
> [root at tlondon gdm]# ls -lrt | head
> total 1304
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2008-10-17 14:11 auth-for-gdm-sA9Si4
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2008-10-20 23:12 auth-for-tbl-0mcMmJ
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2008-10-20 23:12 auth-for-gdm-K9AaX6
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2008-10-28 10:11 auth-for-tbl-9DQPFo
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2008-10-28 10:11 auth-for-gdm-qW9ehq
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2008-10-28 10:30 auth-for-tbl-tyoE78
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2008-10-28 10:30 auth-for-gdm-rAR0ac
> drwxrwxrwt 2 tbl tbl 4096 2008-10-28 14:15 auth-for-tbl-O6TyNk
> drwxrwxrwt 2 gdm gdm 4096 2008-10-28 14:15 auth-for-gdm-KscdOd
> [root at tlondon gdm]#
>
> What should be cleaning these up?
>

Manually cleaning out /var/run/gdm shaves ~4 seconds off my boot.

BZ filed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485974

tom
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Tom London