hi, change the COMPRESSION variable to lz4 ou lzop in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf : it will considerably reduce the compression time. grep COMP /etc/mkinitcpio.conf # COMPRESSION #COMPRESSION="gzip" #COMPRESSION="bzip2" #COMPRESSION="lzma" #COMPRESSION="xz" #COMPRESSION="lzop" COMPRESSION="lz4" # COMPRESSION_OPTIONS #COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=() see here <https://catchchallenger.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO> for quick benchmarks... regards, lacsaP. Le ven. 3 avr. 2020 à 08:08, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 04:36:37 +0200, mpan wrote: > >Half of the time mkinitcpio was waiting for disk I/O. > > Even while it's unlikely that only mkinitcpio suffers from a damaged > HDD and even while smartctl not necessarily does show issues of a > already damaged aged HDD, I would run smartctl and take a look, if it > shows something fishy. >
