ALPHA getting tomuch time at startup

[Sri_10]

Obviously, bootstrap taking very long time to load /vmunix. Does this affect /vmunix alone or does it affect /genvmunix boot too ? ( Try: >>> boot -fi genvmunix )

When the system is up and running check how much fragmented /vmunix file or the root_domain is ?

For file (/vmunix), check:

# showfile -x /vmunix

Id Vol PgSz Pages XtntType Segs SegSz I/O Perf File
a8a.8027 1 16 2557 simple ** ** async 100% vmunix

extentMap: 1
pageOff pageCnt vol volBlock blockCnt
0 2557 1 1334592 40912
extentCnt: 1

If extentCnt is more than say 5, say you have to consider fragmentation of the file and the domain being an issue.

To check fragmentation of the root_domain, do:

# defragment -nv root_domain
defragment: Gathering data for domain 'root_domain'
Current domain data:
Extents: 714
Files w/extents: 713
Avg exts per file w/exts: 1.00
Aggregate I/O perf: 100%
Free space fragments: 195
<100K <1M <10M >10M
Free space: 0% 5% 15% 80%
Fragments: 41 102 38 14

If avg exts per file with exts is much more than 2.0, time to consider defragmenting the root_domain.

Most importantly, if you or somebody could check if REALLY large AdvFS root_domain (in your case, you indicated / is close to 120+ GB! ). May be too large a domain is hurting the boot-up speed., though have I haven't checked .. just wanted to pass this thought ..

Thanks
Sri