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Startup times using Kolivas patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5 on RC1
by James PEARSON 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

Hello all I downloaded Con Kolivas' patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5.bz yesterday and compiled it into a RC1 kernel (on a P4 1.6 GHz 256 Megs) I then measured kde, openOffice, Firefox and konqueror startup times two or three times using each kernel Here are the results: ########################### Con Kelvas ###################### RC1 Standard Kernel #################### (2.6.13-ck5-8-default) ########## (2.6.13-8-default) startup till desktop ###### 76 ############################## 70 openOffice ################ 14 ############################## 15 Firefox ################### 6 ############################### 7 konqueror ################# 2 ############################### 2 Note: Startup till kde desktop was measured from hiting enter on the grub menu until the kde desktop was up and running normally. Idem for the others. My tests slow that startup time for the kde Desktop was actually 6 seconds slower using the Con Kolivas's patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5 . ########### For info ########### linux:/usr/src/linux # bzcat /media/usbdisk/patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5.bz2 | patch -p1 patching file arch/i386/Kconfig patching file arch/i386/pci/common.c patching file arch/i386/pci/i386.c patching file arch/ia64/configs/tiger_defconfig patching file arch/ia64/configs/zx1_defconfig patching file arch/ppc/configs/common_defconfig patching file arch/ppc/configs/pmac_defconfig patching file crypto/cipher.c patching file Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt patching file Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt patching file drivers/char/rtc.c patching file drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c patching file drivers/ide/pci/hpt34x.c patching file drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c patching file drivers/media/video/Kconfig patching file drivers/net/forcedeth.c patching file drivers/net/sungem.c patching file drivers/net/sunhme.c patching file drivers/pci/rom.c patching file drivers/pci/setup-bus.c patching file drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c patching file drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c patching file fs/compat_ioctl.c patching file fs/jfs/inode.c patching file fs/pipe.c patching file fs/proc/array.c patching file fs/proc/base.c patching file include/asm-i386/page.h patching file include/linux/fs.h patching file include/linux/init_task.h patching file include/linux/ioprio.h patching file include/linux/mmzone.h patching file include/linux/sched.h patching file include/linux/swap.h patching file include/linux/sysctl.h patching file include/linux/writeback.h patching file include/net/compat.h patching file init/Kconfig patching file kernel/exit.c patching file kernel/Kconfig.hz patching file kernel/sched.c patching file kernel/sysctl.c patching file Makefile patching file mm/Makefile patching file mm/mempolicy.c patching file mm/page_alloc.c patching file mm/page-writeback.c patching file mm/swap.c patching file mm/swap_prefetch.c patching file mm/swap_state.c patching file mm/vmscan.c patching file net/compat.c patching file net/core/filter.c patching file net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c patching file net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_MASQUERADE.c patching file net/ipv4/raw.c patching file net/ipv6/raw.c patching file net/socket.c Makefile OLD: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 13 EXTRAVERSION = NAME=Woozy Numbat VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 13 EXTRAVERSION = -ck5 NAME=Cognac Woozy Numbat

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Con Kolivas
by Andreas Girardet 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

>From an email with Con: >>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:36 am, in message >> I saw you created a special patchset for rc1. this is fantastic! Are >> you planning to do the final too? > > Yes I was. >> Great news from Con Kolivas ......he is officially going to maintain a - ck patchset for SUSE now and I put my hand up to create a modified - ck rpm set for SUSE ...... expect rpm's in the next few days :D Andreas

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SMP kernel for the 1CD isos?
by nordi 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi everybody! Since an increasing number of users has hyper-threaded CPUs, it would be a good idea to include a SMP kernel for the 1CD install (just heard it is not there, no time+bandwidth to test myself). Otherwise, you will probably have significantly lower performance with this type of CPU. Since there is little space on only one iso, I suggest that we ship a SMP-enabled kernel for everybody. This should not decrease performance for uniprocessor machines but get you full speed on hyperthreaded CPUS. Question: Is this going to break anything? I'm thinking especially of binary-only drivers that might not like SMP systems. Or maybe other problems when you run an SMP enabled kernel on a system with just 1 CPU. Cheers nordi

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bugfix for kernel module in opensuse kernel?
by Fiete Lange 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, I'm running into the following problem: With SuSE 9.2 it was possible to download the kernel module ov511 (one stable and one experimental version, 1.65 en 2.28 I think) and to compile it in order to use some webcams. As far as I understood this module is now maintained in the kernel tree. But with kernel 2.6.11 and later it won't work any more. Some people at www.linux-usb.org wrote that this module is not maintained any more. I've send some e-mails to the official maintainers, but no respons. Will opensuse have an optimized kernel without known bugs of the standard kernel modules? Is there a chance that someone of this community will supply / write a patch? ref: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/search_res.php?pattern=webcam I own a (USB) Phillips ToUCam, which needs support for compression (= a cheap one), works great up to SuSE 9.2 Of coarse I can go to a shop and buy another webcam..... Fiete

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preload question
by Michael Lange 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Why aren't the files sorted according to the used blocks? Example (/etc/preload.d/Firefox): ... /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/browserconfig.properties ...(disk blocks used 29712..29719) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/components/autoconfig.xpt ...(disk blocks used 5276432..5276439) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/components/necko_ftp.xpt ...(disk blocks used 5278128..5278135) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/defaults.ini ...(disk blocks used 29728..29735) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/libnullplugin.so ...(disk blocks used 1355784..1355823) ... better(?): ... /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/browserconfig.properties ...(disk blocks used 29712..29719) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/defaults.ini ...(disk blocks used 29728..29735) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins/libnullplugin.so ...(disk blocks used 1355784..1355823) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/components/autoconfig.xpt ...(disk blocks used 5276432..5276439) /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/components/necko_ftp.xpt ...(disk blocks used 5278128..5278135) ... Or not? mfg

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beta4 benchmark
by Andreas Girardet 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello team Hut ab an alle SUSE developers! The beta4 benchmark is now available on http://www.opensuse.org/index.php?title=SUPER_standard_benchmark and show a significant performance gain over previous beta's. Boot speed and preloading have done the trick and made this the fastest feeling SUSE yet. I am extremely pleased with the system. Guys and girls in SUSE.de land have done such a great job! I bow and say thanks a lot for such an improvement from beta2 to beta4. What I tried is many other combinations. Stefan Kulow (coolo) will be pleased to hear that he is right about prelinking after all and even I am convinced now (how could I ever have doubted the master) that prelinking does not entail any significant improvement over an already well configured and preloaded KDE. It actually is all slightly slower. I have also created the same tests for 9.3, just to see how well the folks in Nuernberg are working and pushing themelves very hard to make it better and better ... they show indeed very well the areas in which everyone has improved things. The 1 CD install gave overall an expected boost when booting, since the install is considerably smaller and defragmenting has also some impact on boot time, but of course nothing on the already preloaded apps. There are more tests to be done in the next few days (new kernel and all improvements together), but I do believe that this release is speed wise ready to blow anything away that is out there. Testing other distro's on my reference system I can safely say that SUSE is fast as lightening. I hope you find the benches as useful as I do, even if they are not "science". Well done again .... and have fun. Good night from NZ. Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER

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Different about prelink and perload
by dwPang 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello,friends! openSuSE10 use perload to optimize performance,before that ,some Linux system use perlink.what different about them? Thanks!

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SLICK and SUPER
by Andreas Girardet 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello Since SLICK and the modified SUSE 10.0 iso's the SUPER project is planning are really pretty much identical and any duplication seems silly at this early stage of the openSUSE I have decided to drop my own modified KDE iso and bring both SLICK and SUPER closer together. Since SUPER is really the Experimental branch as I see it and SLICK is just what I wanted the optimized 1 CD install to be, there is really no point. SLICK can as such be called SUPER LIght Core and KDE. Simon the klick maintainer is going to integrate klik into openSUSE and I will work with him and Matt to produce SLICK together. The only issue that needs addressing really is compatibility as I think anything that has any real future should be 100% compatible with SUSE Linux, but matt's SLICK goals are more open to incompatibilities. I guess we cross that bridge when we have to ;) I hope this is ok ..... Andreas

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missing packets on 1 cd install
by Andreas Weber 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

hello everybody ! as you can see on www.slo-fi.de in forum, several people request smppd ppp pptp linux-atm-lib to get a dsl-connection with the 1_cd install. could you integrate that ? i think such packets shouldnt be missing because internet is a basic interest of most of the people. andreas

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Stimulate building RPMs for SuSE
by Zlatko Michailov 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Please create a section on the opensuse.org web site where enthusiasts around the world can upload product RPMs for SuSE. I have used both Red Hat 8 and SuSE 9. SuSE is way more user-friendly than Red Hat. However, when it comes to installing products that are not included in the original distribution, or even updating an existing product, Red Hat becomes the king of the hill. My observation is that if a project distributes any binaries, RPMS for Red Hat/Fedora are always included, while RPMs for SuSE are not very popular. What I'm suggesting is that the opensuse.org web site becomes the ultimate location for third-party product RPMs for SuSE. It only takes some disk space and a couple of wiki pages. Thanks, Zlatko

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