[Splashy-devel] Bug#410579: splashy breaks resume from disk

[Otavio Salvador]

Tim Dijkstra <newsuser at famdijkstra.org> writes:

>> > Note that initramfs support is pretty much alpha quality... well we (I)
>> > had some problems with it ourselves. The most important problem is the
>> > time it takes to resume. For still unknow reasons splashy takes 100% of
>> > the CPU which results (on my machine) in a delay of the boot process of
>> > about 180 seconds and in other cases a complete hang...
>> 
>> That's one thing that I still want to debug. I do think that's the
>> major blocker for 0.4 goes out.
>
> Last week I had a try at it using qemu. The results were a bit
> demoralizing; stripping splashy down to the bare minimum of just a
> splash screen also produced the same results. 

But then, looks like the process didn't go to "daemon mode" locking
the rest of being run. If it's true, it explain why it takes more or
less two minutes due the timeout of splashy.

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