On Monday 01 February 2010 18:34:46 Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > 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?
I wrote a tutorial for configuring to autoboot into emacs -sclang a while ago here: http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de/MusicTechnology/801 That should cover quite a bit of your needs :) sincerely, Marije > > and while we're there, doing a kexec instead of a warm reboot would be > so sexy - has anyone played with that yet? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
