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Hotplug
by Fernando Simon 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi folks, I found a little link that relates a perl hotplug project, it's show many improvements of performance, but is it true? Someone already used or tested it? Is it possible to use with SUPER? Can this perl hotplug perform the same work than default SUPER hotplug? The link to project: http://opensource.idealcorp.com/hotplug-perl/ Thanks again. Fernando Simon ------------------------------------------------- Univali - Webmail - http://webmail.univali.br

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RE: [opensuse-optimize] About OpenSuSE Super kernel
by Rafael Griman 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hi :) > > Hi Andreas > > > > I think Linus's official answer I read on new schedulers is > > currently > > NO .... I can vaguely remember a kernel mailinglist post a > > year or so > > back about the CK patches, the staircase scheduler (with some > > interesting test results) ...... I sure would love to see Con's > > patches in the official Linus kernel, but der Zug ist abgefahren? > > Maybe you can use your influences with Linus to enquire about it? > > This has to be done the Linus way - convince the Linux kernel > developers... But what could be done is including a SUSE kernel with Con's patches and state clearly that this is a testing kernel, no support, no official kernel, use at your own risk, bla, bla, bla, ... So those who are interested could install it, test it and report back. I guess Linus doesn't integrate these patches 'cuz of stability, testing, reliability, ... issues. Not too many people are testing these patches or are giving back feedback. Just an idea ;) Rafa -- Rafa Grimán Systems Engineer Silicon Graphics Spain Santa Engracia , 120 - Planta Baja 28003 Madrid, Spain Tel: +34 91 3984200 Fax: +34 91 3984201 Móvil: +34 628 117 940 http://www.sgi.com

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Improving bootup time by 11 seconds
by nordi 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hi list! I tried to find out if preloading can improve startup time if you use autologin (=no login screen, KDE gets started immediately). With just one small modification I managed to save 11.6 seconds on my system, bringing the time from 71 seconds down to 59.4! This would certainly be a great thing for the 1CD install, so I would like you to test this. I want to see if it is really that easy to improve performance. Setup: - activate autologin for a user that uses KDE - Insert a command in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs. Change > rc_status > mount -av -t nonfs,noproc,nodevpts,nosmbfs -O no_netdev > rc_status -v1 -r > ;; >stop) to > rc_status > mount -av -t nonfs,noproc,nodevpts,nosmbfs -O no_netdev > /usr/bin/ionice -n6 /sbin/preload < /var/cache/preload/kde.preload & > rc_status -v1 -r > ;; >stop) The only remaining problem is timing. A stopwatch is too unprecise, so I have attached a file that you should place in /opt/kde3/share/autostart. When the system starts, it will open a small window that shows the current uptime of the system (first number, ignore the second one). I would really appreciate your feedback! Cheers nordi

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nvidia and ati driver
by Andreas Girardet 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Hello Team Got 2 rpm's for you to test. You need kernel-sources and gcc and make: http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/apt/suser-agirardet/10.0/RPMS/i686/nvidia-7676-… http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/apt/suser-agirardet/10.0/RPMS/i686/fglrx-8.16.2… ATI driver: rpm -Uvh fglrx-8.16.20-1.SUPER.i686.rpm then run the following on a konsole sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx -b /usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/sax2-profile Close, Test and Save the new configuration and exit sax2 and restart X NVIDIA driver: rpm -Uvh nvidia-7676-1.SUPER.i686.rpm Restart X Andreas

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Small Problems with SLICK
by Sören Wengerowsky 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi, i've installed SLICK from this iso, today: super-SLICK-RC1-20050920-modified-kde.iso now, it works fine, but there were/are some little problems, i'd like you to know ;-) I don't know if that's the right ML to discuss these topics, but i feared that i would have heared, "that's not the pure Opensuse, that's a modified thing.." if i've posted it on the opensuse-ML. I think, this is a "minimized" version of the RC1...? - when i booted from the CD, there was something like a "christmas screen", with Xmas-xpenguins running across the screen. is it intended that everyone on 1th of october gets this screen? The date was recognized well, when i came to the time-zone-section in install. - after installing i tried to run apt-get update, but that didn't work for ftp4.gwdg.de, but after inserting ftp.gwdg.de to the sources.list, it works. the server is definetely online, Err http://ftp4.gwdg.de SuSE/10.0-i386 release Connection failed 0% [Waiting for headers] - adding ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS-RC1/inst-source/ in yast2 works fine. - the x-Authorities are not really set. Root can connect to the user's xserver. That's a thing i've noticed in the SUSE-10-Betas as well, but never asked, why... will the final version contend the restricted standard? - another thing i've noticed in the beta, and here: after choosing German as Layout and as Language, the tastatur-Layout must be set to German manually in Yast after installation, because it's the US's one. But the rest is OK ;-) greets Soeren

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super in vmware
by Andreas Weber 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

hello ! has anybody tested super under vmware ? this seems to fail.. (Test: Installation (in vmware under SuSE 9.2) with virtual SCSI-Disk, LVM and XFS.) is it possible that theres no lvm -package and therefore it can be installed but after reboot it wont load at all ? andreas

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Test 2
by Martin Mewes 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Jetzt klappt das auch mit mbox.mewes.tv Klasse :-) bis dahin/kind regards Martin Mewes -- Welche Mailingliste zu welchem Linux? suse-linux(a)suse.com -> SuSE Linux debian-user-german(a)lists.debian.org -> Debian GNU/Linux linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org -> Linux Kernel

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About OpenSuSE Super kernel
by Tuukka Pasanen 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, I like to ask if you have found your kernel guy to integrate Con Kolivas patches to OpenSuSE Super kernel? I have been toying with kernel 5 five years now. I work at small firm that develops embedded linux machines and I have been compiling kernel to ARM, PowerPC, SPARC and x86 (example VIA) machines. I've been also compiled binary RPMS for our firm use (We commonly use SuSE for our develoment). They can be found at http://tuukka.pasanen.net/programs/kernel/index.htm. So if vacation is open I can be interested in that:) Only problem is I read bit german (I've been working there a while) but I can't write or speak it. So I can't get along with forum and stuff.. Tuukka

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Removing unnecessary applications
by nordi 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hi list! Many of you have probably noticed that openSUSE by default installs (and starts) a number of applications that many people do not need. Examples are the sshd (even started on desktop systems...), Kinternet and the like. If these unneeded programs get removed, we can save a couple of MB of RAM and also make booting faster. I tried this with the following programs that are started by default, but unnecessary on _my_ system: kinternet, sshd, klipper, smpppd, susewatcher. On a freshly booted system, memory usage went down from 87.8 to 82.7 megabytes. This means I can save 5.1MB of RAM. On other systems you will of course have different results because the user may have a different setup. So I think we should have a small tool that asks the user a few questions about his system and disables/uninstalls the programs in question. These few MB could make quite a difference for people with little RAM! Another candidate on my list is portmap. It is needed for importing NFS file systems, which not that many people do. I'm just wondering if it is also necessary for anything else that a user might want? Maybe other programs could be disabled as well. Feel free to suggest one. Cheers nordi

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CK - suse kernel
by Andreas Girardet 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

SNIP >> uploaded to my webserver, and this includes the swap prefetch >> update planned for ck6 (but the patch is still called ck5). I've renamed >> the patch directory for clarity. >> >> http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.13/suse- 2.6.13- 15/ > > I should also mention that by default, until it is proven, I would recommend > > swap prefetch should be off in the packaged binary kernel rpms. > > Cheers, > Con FYI Groovie baby .... expect rpm's from me for the final ... Andreas

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