How To Speed Up Opensuse Boot Time And Manage Memory Better

This is quite good. Maybe you could put this in the wiki?
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i hate to sound like a complete plonker, but how do i add a howto in the wiki then? i would be more than happy to add it in, perhaps first paste brochs tips, followed by what i just pasted in? nothing fancy, but to the point and easy to understand.

ross.

i hate to sound like a complete plonker, but how do i add a howto in the wiki then? i would be more than happy to add it in, perhaps first paste brochs tips, followed by what i just pasted in? nothing fancy, but to the point and easy to understand.

ross.
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Actually, I added it for you. Now all you have to do is edit it to your liking. Maybe explain it a bit more. Here is where it is http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...unlevelservices

Actually, I added it for you. Now all you have to do is edit it to your liking. Maybe explain it a bit more. Here is where it is http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...unlevelservices
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thanks for adding that. have amended it a little, just added a little note to start with and a link to this page. hope it's ok.

Ross.

Just as a point of interest, xfs (XFont Server) is turned off in openSUSE 10.3 by default. You can turn it on, or leave it off.

I also made a lil edit for formatting.

When adding url's to the wiki, the format is [[example.com some website]]

Just as a point of interest, xfs (XFont Server) is turned off in openSUSE 10.3 by default. You can turn it on, or leave it off.

I also made a lil edit for formatting.

When adding url's to the wiki, the format is [[example.com some website]]
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ok thanks Jonathan R for that.

some of the explanations are wrong:

pptp No
Shutdown service for ppp
A clean shutdown service for PPP tunnels, used when on ups to avoid lock file problems when power returns to the system.[/b]

there is no such thing as shutdown service for ppp (?)
pptp means point-to-point-tunneling protocol, needed for VPN with MS boxes
PPP stands for point-to-point networking protocol which you seem to confuse with PPTP

I would suggest to leave acpi alone, or read a bit more about it.
I would suggest to look more closely at hal. It seems that you wish to mount everything by hand, not to mention that hal will help with on-demand recognition of attached devices

alsa No
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
The only sound system actually included in the kernel[/b]

again you are confusing things. kernel modules and daemon are two different things.

If I may suggest something, I would really rewrite your list of explanations.

some of the explanations are wrong:
there is no such thing as shutdown service for ppp (?)
pptp means point-to-point-tunneling protocol, needed for VPN with MS boxes
PPP stands for point-to-point networking protocol which you seem to confuse with PPTP

I would suggest to leave acpi alone, or read a bit more about it.
I would suggest to look more closely at hal. It seems that you wish to mount everything by hand, not to mention that hal will help with on-demand recognition of attached devices
again you are confusing things. kernel modules and daemon are two different things.

If I may suggest something, I would really rewrite your list of explanations.
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Hi Broch,

Thank you for your suggestions, and may i add that your first post on this topic was incredible, my initial boot time before was about 50secs to logon screen, i have now cut it down to about 36-37ish
regarding rewriting the list of explanations, i would like you to know i am merely a linux mortal compared to gurus such as yourselves, and i only got this list from a table on the net, and don't really know what is what, i just used it as a guide; i just used it so i could say hmmm, doesn't sound like i need that, so get rid of it etc etc. of course i wrote down which i changed in case something went wrong lol. if you could PM me of whatever and explain to me what was wrong i will edit post as well as the wiki which jonathan r created. is this ok? i hope so; and may i also say it's great to have you back on the forums.

Much appreciated and speak soon,

Ross.

It would have you'd given credit to the origonal source
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...3-6018195.html

/Geoff

Hi Broch,

Thank you for your suggestions, and may i add that your first post on this topic was incredible, my initial boot time before was about 50secs to logon screen, i have now cut it down to about 36-37ish
regarding rewriting the list of explanations, i would like you to know i am merely a linux mortal compared to gurus such as yourselves, and i only got this list from a table on the net, and don't really know what is what, i just used it as a guide; i just used it so i could say hmmm, doesn't sound like i need that, so get rid of it etc etc. of course i wrote down which i changed in case something went wrong lol. if you could PM me of whatever and explain to me what was wrong i will edit post as well as the wiki which jonathan r created. is this ok? i hope so; and may i also say it's great to have you back on the forums.

Much appreciated and speak soon,

Ross.
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thestig, if I may go a bit off topic for a bit, I really like your attitude. I wish more users were like you. You are humble and approachable. You are willing to take criticism and make the corrections suggested. You are also willing to do your own research. I appreciate that.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-...5.html#comments
plenty of errors there, I would discard this as a reference source.

@thestig
I am not guru

pptp is a service required for tunneling with older (NT and maybe w2k) windows VPN, currently replaced with IPSEC
winbind is required for samba domain authentication, but it is not required for simple sambaworkgroup authentication. Explanation given by the above web page is simply incorrect.
acpi is needed for proper function of any power related event, not only on laptops (e.g. suspend, sleep disk spin down) - I would keep this one
nscd name service cache daemon, it is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests
haldaemon - see my explanation above. I would keep this one

some explanations are quite bizarre, not sure where the author got them

author suggest to keep gpm why? mouse works well without gpm in windowed terminal. Otherwise really not needed (at least I don't see a reason. This is not a tool critical for system functionality anyway)

dkms - I wish more distro would have this. DKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support (imagine that you will never have to reinstall external modules e.g. nvidia when updating kernel). Unless there is something different for password setting (??), which is possible author got it wrong.

author wants to run iptables and shorewall.
shorewall is does not run continuously, it merely allows easy configuration of firewall rules. So this is useful only for users not familiar with iptables.

xfs
author says that this is required. Not on suse, not on most of current distros

it seems that author is running Mandrake/Mandriva

some services of the services marked as important are not, other neglected will be useful or even vital.

Well, this is your contribution, you need to find the rest of inaccuracies yourself