Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-04-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
bootcharts: http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-init.png http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-initng.png initng's boot log is http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-log.txt It seems you have some error messages: system/mountroot : bash_helper[system/mountroot]: line 16: /usr/bin/awk: No such

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:47:37 -0400, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: digicam is a good option ;) . Ok, this time it gave me the login screen :). Going into console(if there is any) and restarting with the logging option. Didn't last long. The problem

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I believe it would also be useful for you to try a more recent version of ifiles. I use it from cvs. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. Sorry my mistake, should have been http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Thanks, /kds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/29/07, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. Sorry my mistake, should have been http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Finally I see the

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. You could try to run some scripts in parallel by setting CONCURRENCY=shell or CONCURRENCY=startpar in /etc/init.d/rc But read the comments in /etc/init.d/rc and compare to the none

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Cassiano Leal
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: On 3/29/07, *KS* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ Thanks. Nice find.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Cassiano Leal
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ Ok, now I found the

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread KS
KS wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ Thanks. Nice

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. After I was done with making a bootchart for init, I tried doing the same with initng and

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:39:49PM EST, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. After I was done with making a bootchart for init,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to start system/mountfs daemon (or service ?). Hum... It would probably be more productive if you

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:26:27 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:47:37 -0400, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: digicam is a good option ;) . Ok, this time it gave me the login screen :). Going into console(if there is any) and restarting with the logging option. Didn't last long. The problem came up again. It looks as if it

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Why don't you send me , attached? If you compress it enough it will probably be just a few KB, and I think my mail can handle even a few MB. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-27 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from Sysvinit to initng. I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: Run ls -1 /etc/init.d and post it here. That will tell us what you can deinstall. Hmmm, init ... I was wondering what is the status of the init daemon replacements upstart and initng. I was checking up in on initng on debian website and the changelog shows that the last

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Does anyone have experience in using either of these? How much is the performance different than the current init? I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from Sysvinit to initng. The

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:06:33AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: use either of them (Well I know I don't use MySQL, but is hplip something that I could be using and not even knowing about?) apt-cache show hplip | less -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ms Linuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to just remove it from starting, I can't purge some of them. Use update-rc.d(8) Or for easy, interactive use: 'sysv-rc-conf'. Why there isn't anybody suggesting of renaming things on /etc/init.d to simply disabled uneeded service(s)

Re: ACPI Problems [was: Re: Speeding up boot time]

2007-03-23 Thread Cassiano Leal
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Cassiano Leal wrote: I didn't have ACPI on in my BIOS. After activating it, dmesg shows ACPI supporting S0, S1, S2, S4, S5 and S6, but not S3. Is this a hardware/BIOS limitation, or can it be overcome in software? hardware/BIOS. What

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:19:20 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to remove these I just remove them from /etc/init.d? If you don't use them, then I would do this: sudo aptitude purge apache2 avahi-daemon bittorrent

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-23 Thread Ms Linuz
2007/3/23, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:19:20 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to remove these I just remove them from /etc/init.d? If you don't use them, then I would do this: sudo aptitude purge

ACPI Problems [was: Re: Speeding up boot time]

2007-03-23 Thread Cassiano Leal
Cassiano Leal wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Cassiano Leal wrote: Just one thing, though... When I 'echo -n mem /sys/power/state', it responds it can't write to the file. 'echo -n disk /sys/power/state' works flawlessly, though. You are missing

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:56:10 -0600 John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] BTW, where's your MTA? I don't see exim4 or postfix. I just use Google's SMTP server, I

Re: ACPI Problems [was: Re: Speeding up boot time]

2007-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Cassiano Leal wrote: I didn't have ACPI on in my BIOS. After activating it, dmesg shows ACPI supporting S0, S1, S2, S4, S5 and S6, but not S3. Is this a hardware/BIOS limitation, or can it be overcome in software? hardware/BIOS. What machine is this? -- One disk to

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:56:10PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:28:15PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? you might also want to check out sysv-rc-conf, its a neat little terminal

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Cassiano Leal
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Install the uswsusp package. Don't shut your system down. Just suspend

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Cassiano Leal wrote: Just one thing, though... When I 'echo -n mem /sys/power/state', it responds it can't write to the file. 'echo -n disk /sys/power/state' works flawlessly, though. You are missing suspend-to-ram (S3) functionality in the kernel or in your ACPI

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Cassiano Leal
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Cassiano Leal wrote: Just one thing, though... When I 'echo -n mem /sys/power/state', it responds it can't write to the file. 'echo -n disk /sys/power/state' works flawlessly, though. You are missing suspend-to-ram (S3) functionality

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to remove these I just remove them from /etc/init.d? If you don't use them, then I would do this: sudo aptitude purge apache2 avahi-daemon bittorrent clamav-freshclam hyperestraier mysql* nfs-common I have to just remove it from

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. It is said that linking /bin/sh to dash instead of bash should speed up the boot process. The Debian Way to do this is: dpkg-divert --add /bin/sh ln -si /bin/dash

Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my wireless drivers are loaded separately). Are there any easy

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my Ethernet and my

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything manually? It's not as much as you think. And if I remove networking, how do I

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few things (Like

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Currently I have

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look through my startup programs, or will I have to sort through everything

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:54:09PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39, Michael Pobega wrote: Are there any easy tools to look

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/07 19:39,

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] you might also want

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Pobega wrote: I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea where to start. Install the uswsusp package. Don't shut your system down. Just suspend it to the swap partition