On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:09:19 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > On 08/18/2011 11:25 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> Try dracut version 013. It's already faster. > > Yes, there is some improvement, but I still seek a *factor* of 3 to 4 > overall before cpio+gzip. All the slow coding persists. > > > $ time /abs/path/to/dracut-013/dracut --local --force test2.img ### > [fixed-width font, please] contrast to dracut-011 > real 59s +3s user 26s > +6s sys 29s -2s > > 26.0MB output image + 11.1MB 69.0MB unzipped > + 28.0MB > 1947 files listed by cpio +328 files > 483 .ko kernel modules +116 modules > > ## Note the results have gotten larger (time, bytes, files, modules). ## > The input (and configuration) has evolved, too. > Can you add -M to see which modules are loaded? As a kdump developer, I worry more about the size of initramfs generated by dracut, because we have very limited memory (usually 128M or 256M) in the second kernel. So, the output of `lsinitrd test2.img` would be helpful too. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
