2010/2/2 Jörn Nettingsmeier <netti...@folkwang-hochschule.de>: > hi everyone! > > > here's a question for sysadmin type low-latency adepts: > > i have a general-purpose notebook that doubles as a lean and mean > recording machine. it's opensuse, which means it works nicely with most > bells and whistles, but it also has an awful lot of questionable stuff > running that interferes with stable low-latency performance. > > so i usually boot into a ll kernel and kill everything i don't need for > the duration of a session. > to ease that job, i have put the (unused) runlevel 4 back to work: > basically i copied rc5.d into rc4.d and ruthlessly deleted everything i > don't want. now "sudo telinit 4" will slim down my process list. > > since the runlevel corresponds with the need for a ll kernel, i wonder: > is there any way to tell the kernel (via grub) to tell init to ignore > the initdefault in /etc/inittab and go directly to runlevel $FOO? > > and while we're there, doing a kexec instead of a warm reboot would be > so sexy - has anyone played with that yet?
Yep, append the runlevel number. Yep, it's faster. But it's a little troublesome and I was always wary, because I had to adapt my system's shutdown script to tag along with kexec. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev