Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-15 Thread Warp_7
Am Montag, 12. April 2010 schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get done about 9 seconds

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-14 Thread Hinko Kocevar
On 04/12/10 18:17, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. How do you take backups? -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. How do you take backups? I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create an LVM snapshot of the partition, and backup with use

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.04.2010 00:00, schrieb Alex Schuster: Florian Philipp writes: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Can boot be sped up even more? The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or SuspendToRam. Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Am 13.04.2010 00:00, schrieb Alex Schuster: Florian Philipp writes: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Can boot be sped up even more? The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.04.2010 19:29, schrieb Ngoc Nguyen Bao: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Am 13.04.2010 00:00, schrieb Alex Schuster: Florian Philipp writes: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Can boot be sped up even more? The fastest

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. How do you take backups? I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:56:09 +0200 schrieb Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com: On 12. 4. 2010 14:36, Hinko Kocevar wrote: [SNIP] Shift to baselayout2 was really simple and it works like charm. Actually, I wonder why is baselayout2 still ~x86/~amd64? Seems quite stable to me, never had any problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:06:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The deal is I cannot stop the VMs from doing their work so I need some way of getting them backed up while they are live. Which VMware product are you using? Workstation can take snapshots of running VMs. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons

[gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get done about 9 seconds faster that with RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=no. Boot time is

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Hinko Kocevar
On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread KH
Am 12.04.2010 11:56, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: [...] Thank you! Hmm, I was looking at the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. For OpenRC I added sys-apps/openrc ~x86 to package.keywords, to get baselayout-2 ebuild I've added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to /etc/make.conf. Will it be

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Hinko Kocevar
Hi, On 04/12/10 12:26, KH wrote: Am 12.04.2010 11:56, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: [...] Thank you! Hmm, I was looking at the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. For OpenRC I added sys-apps/openrc ~x86 to package.keywords, to get baselayout-2 ebuild I've added

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar hinko.koce...@i-tech.si wrote: Hi, I've started to

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at the bootchart output I discovered that if using parallel boot feature from the /etc/conf.d/rc (RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP=yes), things get done about 9 seconds faster

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Jarry
On 12. 4. 2010 14:36, Hinko Kocevar wrote: I've added ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to /etc/make.conf. Will it be enough to (re-)build the baselayout and openrc and its closest dependencies (41 packages)? Or do I need to perform complete system upgrade (~900 packages) now that ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Alex Schuster
Florian Philipp writes: Am 12.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Hinko Kocevar: Can boot be sped up even more? The fastest way to boot is not to boot at all. Just use Suspend2Disk or SuspendToRam. Take a look at TuxOnIce and hibernate-script. Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. I