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 se

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 (RC_PARALLEL_S

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 Oxymoron

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:56:09 +0200 schrieb Jarry : > 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 with it in the la

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alex Schuster 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. I creat

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 > 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 Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Florian Philipp 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 Suspend2Disk o

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-sc

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 rdiff-b

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

2010-04-12 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 rebo

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 presen

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Roy Wright
On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Hinko Kocevar > wrote: On 04/12/10 11:31, Ngoc Nguyen Bao wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar > wrote: Hi, I've started to look around on how to speed up the Gentoo boot sequence. Looking at

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 ACC

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

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

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 enou

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 > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot speedup

2010-04-12 Thread Ngoc Nguyen Bao
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Hinko Kocevar 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 get > done about

[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 i