Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Rob wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > >>I've heard a lot of comments about the booting > >>process of freebsd, that it is much faster than > >>booting into Linux. > > > > It is. > > I also seem to remember that from my long-time-back linux experience. > Given a same amount of services to run on either system, what are obvious, > easy to understand, reasons for FreeBSD to be quicker than Linux? I don't know. 8-) All I know is that some time back I tried FreeBSD 4.x (I think) and a couple of Linux versions on the same system, and FreeBSD was noticeably quicker at bringing up KDE and running it. > > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > I once tried that, but the system was cluttering up lots of undeliverable > emails to root. Apparently system maintenance reports its results by > email to root, and cannot deliver it without having basic sendmail running. There's some information in the man page for 'periodic' that lets you change the email to log files, and control what is logged. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pavel Duda wrote: > Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > > Please help me sir. I want to make the most out > > of my FreeBSD system. And one last thing, I know this > > might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell > > how to run multiple programs in one log-in prompt? I > > didn't acctualy understand how virtual consoles works > > so every time I'm playing mp3 on mpg123, I will have > > to press the F keys to login to another prompt just to > > > > be able to run another program. > > > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Mark > > > > Take a look at screen ( ports/misc/screen ). Or type an ampersand "&" at the end of your mpg123 command. It will go into the background and you can go on working with your shell. Uli. > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Please help me sir. I want to make the most out of my FreeBSD system. And one last thing, I know this might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell how to run multiple programs in one log-in prompt? I didn't acctualy understand how virtual consoles works so every time I'm playing mp3 on mpg123, I will have to press the F keys to login to another prompt just to be able to run another program. Thanks a lot, Mark Take a look at screen ( ports/misc/screen ). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I've heard a lot of comments about the booting process of freebsd, that it is much faster than booting into Linux. It is. I also seem to remember that from my long-time-back linux experience. Given a same amount of services to run on either system, what are obvious, easy to understand, reasons for FreeBSD to be quicker than Linux? You don't say if there's any particular step that is slow. New systems often lack reverse DNS, so sendmail will sit there for thirty seconds or more just waiting. Not sure about the minimum required, but giving the system's hostname in /etc/hosts helps. If you don't need sendmail, turn it off by adding sendmail_enable="NONE" I once tried that, but the system was cluttering up lots of undeliverable emails to root. Apparently system maintenance reports its results by email to root, and cannot deliver it without having basic sendmail running. As soon as I switched to 'sendmail_enable="NO"', immediately after the first boot-up, the system was busy for a long while to deliver all the previously cluttered-up undeliverable emails. I consider this to be a nasty side effect of system maintenance. Regards, Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I've heard a lot of comments about the booting > process of freebsd, that it is much faster than > booting into Linux. It is. > I'm not experiencing quite as much as what their saying right now. You don't say if there's any particular step that is slow. New systems often lack reverse DNS, so sendmail will sit there for thirty seconds or more just waiting. Not sure about the minimum required, but giving the system's hostname in /etc/hosts helps. If you don't need sendmail, turn it off by adding sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Eric Crist writes: > On my system, unless you're in X, it's Alt-Fn (you have to do > Ctl-Alt-Fn from an X session). I did not know that. Thanks. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command > with &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could > simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 && I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"? You're correct here My bad. > An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by > hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by > pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system On my system, unless you're in X, it's Alt-Fn (you have to do Ctl-Alt-Fn from an X session). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Robert Huff wrote: [snip] An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system IIRC, Ctrl-Alt-Fn is for when using GUI. My 4.9 and 5.0 systems do fine between terminals with Alt-Fn --Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with > &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 && I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"? > An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by > hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by > pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Sir, [SNIP] And one last thing, I know this might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell how to run multiple programs in one log-in prompt? I didn't acctualy understand how virtual consoles works so every time I'm playing mp3 on mpg123, I will have to press the F keys to login to another prompt just to be able to run another program. Mark, You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type: # amp song.mp3 && An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. HTH Eric F Crist __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
