On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org> wrote:
I sorted it -- thanks! It turned out to be pretty obscure; my tty
setting for the receiving end of the serial console was set to echo.
So when the machine booted, it was echoing lots of characters into the
Fedora 7 init, which would prompt for the starting of cpuspeed
initscript. Turning off echo for the tty was what triggered the
slowness; removing cpuspeed from the runlevel entirely solved the
problem.
Don't know why cpuspeed would select a governor which runs the CPU at
a constant 300 MHz, though.
Vegard
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