Debian Bug report logs - #477083
grub-pc: Is excruciatingly slow when compared to grub (legacy)

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Package: grub-pc; Maintainer for grub-pc is GRUB Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for grub-pc is src:grub2 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:39:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed-upstream

Merged with 476479, 486119

Found in versions 1.96+20080621-1, grub2/1.96+20080413-1, grub2/1.96+20080601-2, grub2/1.96+20080626-1

Fixed in versions 1.96+20080617-1, grub2/1.96+20080704-1

Done: Robert Millan <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Robert Millan <[email protected]>
To: Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: grub-pc: please make the the use of fs_uuid optional
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forcemerge 477083 476479 486119
thanks

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:12:00PM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> * Robert Millan <[email protected]> [2008-07-24 13:34]:
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:13:37PM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> > > Package: grub-pc
> > > Version: 1.96+20080601-2
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > could you probably make the use of fs_uuid and search optional? On my
> > > system every call to search for a uuid takes about 2sec and [...]
> > 
> > I don't think every uuid search takes 2s, there's a disk cache to prevent
> > that.  I suspect you got that impression because other costly activities
> > were intermangled with the search commands that print visible output.
> 
> I tested it without the search lines and it was much faster than.
> 
> > Luckily, this is fixed now, AFAICT.  See #476479 and #477083.  If you can
> > confirm that it boots fast now, I'd like to close/merge this bug.
> 
> you can close it, its much faster now, thanks a lot.

Okay.

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Robert Millan

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