On 2006/03/01 11:22, Andrew Morton wrote: > I guess it'd be useful to see where all that time is spent, if you have > time. Enable CONFIG_PROFILING, boot with `profile=1', do: > > readprofile -r > mount ... > readprofile -n -v -m /boot/System.map | sort -n -k 3 | tail -40 Here it is. As an explanation of the profile's scope, I have also sent the shell script which reproduces the problem on my machine. The script however is not 100% reliable; sometimes, the lockup just won't occur. Sounds like a timing problem to me. btw. my other partitions are also reiserfs (but not encrypted). Max