Slow Kernel Extension Load

Adrian · May 19, 2006

I have just installed the RC, and I have noticed that my Mac Mini takes a considerable amount of time to load all the kernel extensions. This is particularly noticeable with the loading of the Intego extensions (I have NetBarrier X4, NetUpdate X4, Personal Backup X4 and VirusBarrier X4 installed) and they are required for the NetUpdate check that I run at startup.

The only way around this is to delete the Parallels Network Adapter in the Network Preferences (leaves a 'Ethernet Adaptor (en2)' which cannot be deleted unless I run the Unstall for Parallels). This results in the Host-Only networking no longer being available (I don't use it anyway), but bridged networking still functions.

The end result is that my extensions now load faster.

If Parallels could investigate this issue, it would be greatly appreciated as I would like to have all options of Parallels functioning.

Cheers.

Adrian · May 23, 2006

Any reply??

Andrew @ Parallels · May 23, 2006

Thanks for reporting - we will investigate this. And could give approximate numbers - how it was and how it become?

Jan Wittrodt · May 23, 2006

Andrew @ Parallels said:
Thanks for reporting - we will investigate this. And could give approximate numbers - how it was and how it become?

Same issue here. I'm using Intego's NetBarrier (firewall) and Personal AntiSpam. Since RC1 the startup of intego's components seems to halt for about 30 up to 60 seconds. All other start-up items are already loaded just intego's components are hanging. The system gets locked until intego's components have finally been loaded.

This was even more worse after my first install of RC 1. Instead of just 60 waiting time the system completely came to halt or just kernel paniced. I did restart in save mode and used onyx to clean all caches (system, user and kernel extensions).

This brought my system back working. I thought it was a intego problem in the first pace, even wrote a mail with kernel panic log attached to intego but received no answer so far.

Adrian · May 23, 2006

Jan Wittrodt said:
Same issue here. I'm using Intego's NetBarrier (firewall) and Personal AntiSpam. Since RC1 the startup of intego's components seems to halt for about 30 up to 60 seconds. All other start-up items are already loaded just intego's components are hanging. The system gets locked until intego's components have finally been loaded.

This was even more worse after my first install of RC 1. Instead of just 60 waiting time the system completely came to halt or just kernel paniced. I did restart in save mode and used onyx to clean all caches (system, user and kernel extensions).

This brought my system back working. I thought it was a intego problem in the first pace, even wrote a mail with kernel panic log attached to intego but received no answer so far.

Jan,

My timings for the "pause" in the Kernel extensions are the same - 30 to 60 seconds, sometimes can go for 2 minutes. When I deleted the Host Only Networking from the Network Devices as I stated in my original post, the Kernel Extensions for Intego loaded in it's normal time (around 1 to 5 seconds).

Hope this assists.

Jan Wittrodt · May 24, 2006

Adrian said:
Jan,

My timings for the "pause" in the Kernel extensions are the same - 30 to 60 seconds, sometimes can go for 2 minutes. When I deleted the Host Only Networking from the Network Devices as I stated in my original post, the Kernel Extensions for Intego loaded in it's normal time (around 1 to 5 seconds).

Hope this assists.

Besides Windows XP I'm also running Linux (Suse). I need the parallels network adapter in order to gain internet access via Internet Sharing.

Adrian · May 24, 2006

Jan Wittrodt said:
Besides Windows XP I'm also running Linux (Suse). I need the parallels network adapter in order to gain internet access via Internet Sharing.

Do you have to use Host Networking? I have installed Linux (Fedora) to try it out, and it worked fine with bridged (ie. Parallels got it's own IP from my router).