Hi, With recent git tree, glusterd takes a long time to start. Earlier: [root@bharata glusterfs]# time glusterd real 0m0.007s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.006s Now: [root@bharata glusterfs]# time glusterd real 0m4.152s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.009s git bisect points to this commit: [root@bharata glusterfs]# git bisect bad 373b25827f0250d11461fbe76dd6a0e295069171 is the first bad commit commit 373b25827f0250d11461fbe76dd6a0e295069171 Author: Anand Avati <avati@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Aug 20 10:48:16 2012 -0700 core: enable process to return the appropriate error code Setup a pipe() in glusterfs_ctx_t to communicate with the fork'ed child the exit status and return it to the shell. Change-Id: Ibbaa581d45acb24d5141e43ae848cae29312d95f BUG: 762935 Signed-off-by: Anand Avati <avati@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/3836 Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@xxxxxxxxxx> Regards, Bharata. -- http://bharata.sulekha.com/blog/posts.htm, http://raobharata.wordpress.com/