I have begun to notice that the smartd stalls my machine's boot process for as much as 2-3 minutes while it is coming up. I have the BIOS SMART function enabled, and I removed the bad SG400GB drive from the box yesterday, but I think this goes back farther than that.
Why does it take so long? Is the BIOS SMART involved in this (and how)?
Also, sendmail and sm-client take 30s-2m to come up as well (not always, but usually).
Config: CentOS 4.4 Plus (2.6.9-42.0.10 kernel) AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 (PC6400) ram 160MB + 120MB Maxtor PATA drives (160 is the boot drive) 300GB Seagate SATA drive (/boot and / are here) geFORCE7100sg (nVidia) PCI-E x16 video card Minolta QMS PagePro 1100 laser printer on /dev/lp0
Thanks.
Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax