Re: oops pauser. / boot_delayer

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 00:35:47 EST


On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:28:59PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> >Also note that the kernel generates a lot of noise^W text - if now the
> >start scripts from $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO also fill up, I can barely reach
> >the top of the kernel when it says
> > Linux version 2.6.15 (jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.0.2
> > 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Jan 3 09:21:27 CET 2006
>
> enable a few different types of encryption and you have to enlarge the
> buffer (by quite a bit). the fact that all the encryption tests print
> several lines each out and can't be turned off (short of a quiet boot
> where you loose everything) is one of the more annoying things to me right
> now.
>
> this large boot message issue also slows your boot significantly if you
> have a fast box that has a serial console, it takes a long time to dump
> all that info out the serial port.

So disable CONFIG_CRYPTO_TEST. There's no reason to test this stuff every boot.

Dave

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