Comment 26 for bug 2065037

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Stefano (luckylinux777) wrote :

I cannot compare the timing at `initramfs_v9.debug` because I didn't save `dmesg` output then.

I only have `dmesg_v4.debug` and `dmesg_v10.debug` / `dmesg_v11.debug`.

But you can argue that 5-6 seconds difference is not that big of a deal.

I could also re-run with v9 and save dmesg this time.

Looking at `/var/log/dmesg*` I see the last runs were (from most recent to older, i.e. v11-v10-v9-v8-v7-v6, i.e. `dmesg.log`-`dmesg.0`-`dmesg.1.gz`-`dmesg.2.gz`-`dmesg.3.gz`-`dmesg.4.gz`):
```
v11: [ 23.390693] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
v10: [ 24.065033] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
v09: [ 29.016602] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
v08: [ 43.999904] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
v07: [ 44.610778] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
v06: [ 44.220698] kernel: spl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
```

Especially since we went from 300 seconds -> 45 seconds -> 25 ... 30 seconds right now.

That's already a 10x speedup.

What's weird is that on one system I didn't see anything happening at all ... the screen just freezes without any output from dhcpcd or anything else. Maybe it's because on the Laptop I had set `debug` and on the main Workstation I had `nomodeset` ?

(I'm writing you from this "Main" Workstation, the one that we are attempting to fix first is my secondary Laptop ... it's easier to reboot/relogin via SSH rather than having to shutdown my main PC).

Separate Topic ...

Is there a way to configure the logging system so that EVERY boot is a separate /var/log/dmesg and that /var/log/dmesg always stores the FULL content since a given boot ? For "small boots" like the ones I just pasted it works fine, but I think after a while, if the system is actually used, stays in standby/sleep mode for several days and work in-between etc, I think the log gets splitted "after a while". Is there a way to disable this behaviour ? Or else have logs saved by date ? e.g. /var/log/dmesg.20240508.0, /var/log/dmesg.20240508.1, etc ?