Swap causing very slow boot (and systemd says the swap partition became active after 500k years) - eviltoast

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13313385

I’m dualbooting Fedora Kinoite (ublue-nvidia image) with Windows 11 and I have a boot time of over 1 minute (only on the Fedora side).

The output of systemd-analyze critical-chain is:

└─sddm.service @16.435s
  └─plymouth-quit.service @16.315s +107ms
    └─systemd-user-sessions.service @16.299s +12ms
      └─remote-fs.target @16.298s
        └─remote-fs-pre.target @16.298s
          └─nfs-client.target @16.298s
            └─gssproxy.service @16.288s +9ms
              └─network.target @16.285s
                └─wpa_supplicant.service @16.281s +4ms
                  └─basic.target @14.798s
                    └─dbus-broker.service @14.774s +22ms
                      └─dbus.socket @14.760s
                        └─sysinit.target @14.757s
                          └─systemd-resolved.service @14.696s +61ms
                            └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @14.584s +96ms
                              └─local-fs.target @14.569s
                                └─run-user-1000-doc.mount @23.123s
                                  └─run-user-1000.mount @22.463s
                                    └─swap.target @1.410s
                                      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-819f25f8\x2daf77\x2d4d7b\x2daaf7\x2dadb07819a7b1.swap @1.276s +35ms
                                        └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-819f25f8\x2daf77\x2d4d7b\x2daaf7\x2dadb07819a7b1.device @584542y 2w 2d 20h 46.792s +1min 3.997s

First of all, I would like to know what the hell is going on with that 584542 years active time lol

Anyway, the x2dadb07819a7b1 UUID belongs to the swap partition.

Output of lsblk -f:

NAME                                          FSTYPE      FSVER LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
zram0                                                                                                                           [SWAP]
nvme0n1                                                                                                                         
├─nvme0n1p1                                   vfat        FAT32 EFI         AAFB-90EA                             553.6M     7% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2                                   ext4        1.0   fedora-boot a1457f7b-c1fb-40da-9c6f-98356d9003e2  526.8M    39% /boot
├─nvme0n1p3                                   ext4        1.0   fedora-root 0e748e63-f5f5-42f1-babd-818054eb9ee5   40.8G    35% /var
│                                                                                                                               /sysroot/ostree/deploy/fedora/var
│                                                                                                                               /usr
│                                                                                                                               /etc
│                                                                                                                               /
│                                                                                                                               /sysroot
├─nvme0n1p4                                   swap        1     fedora-swap 819f25f8-af77-4d7b-aaf7-adb07819a7b1                [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p5                                   crypto_LUKS 2                 ea073ead-906c-4127-9555-efba204baabf                
│ └─luks-ea073ead-906c-4127-9555-efba204baabf ext4        1.0   fedora-home e37f299a-84f5-46ce-976c-507b8e8e25f8      1T     1% /var/home
├─nvme0n1p6                                   ntfs              Extra       74FE8F25FE8EDF2C                                    
├─nvme0n1p7                                                                                                                     
├─nvme0n1p8                                   BitLocker   2                                                                     
└─nvme0n1p9                                   ntfs                          C02807922807869E 

What should I do?

  • lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    if you have zram enabled why do you have a swap partion on your ssd at all?

    How much ram do you have?

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    if you have enough RAM, you only really need swap if you want to hybernate. i’m running without swap for >10 years now. the only times regular users hit OOM is when a weird error happens and in that case you want it to be OOM killed quickly instead of your system becoming super slow while it tries to swap gigabytes of what the broken program is allocating.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.

    Were there any errors during boot?

    Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)

    PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.