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Old 06-02-2006, 02:54 AM   #1
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backgrounding hotplug & ldconfig during boot


total noob just installed slack 10.2 on pc (freqently shutdown). Notices that booting takes quite some time, mainly due to hotplug start and ldconfig. Wonders if it's a good idea to background these two by adding & in rc scripts. Or do they _need_ to be finished before the boot proces can move on?
 
Old 06-02-2006, 04:18 AM   #2
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It's perfectly fine to start ldconfig after boot. I have commented the ldconfig lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.M, and added the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
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# Start ldconfig in the background 5 minutes after boot
/usr/bin/echo "ldconfig" | /usr/bin/at now +5minutes 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null
echo "at: /sbin/ldconfig will be started after 5 minutes..."
I don't think it is a good idea to do the same with hotplug, but maybe others can comment on that.

Cheers, Leon.
 
Old 06-02-2006, 01:28 PM   #3
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Well, If you are willing to the danger, you can try and see what happens when hotplug is run in the background not sure if that's going to be pleasant, though

I think there are some other things which IMO are more likely to run correctly in the background, like: loading the hwclock (in rc.S line 185 and 187, but I'm not sure of this one), loading custom sysctl config (rc.S, line 206), cleaning temporary files (rc.S, lines 253-255), setup the motd (rc.S, line 289), initialize /dev/urandom (rc.S, lines 304-314), maybe some things in the SysV init script could be parallelized, setting terminal powersave (rc.M, line 19), saving the contents of dmesg (rc.M, 31), removal of stale locks (rc.M, lines 78-83).

Also, maybe some other things, like running the rc.alsa script, could also be done correctly in the background, but if you run anything else which (for example) depends on alsa running, you'd have to make sure that the dependency has finished starting... that's mainly the reason why I wouldn't rely on having hotplug run in the background.

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Old 06-04-2006, 08:04 PM   #4
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Also, you could have (read as Will Have) problems starting X if you background hotplug.

If it is taking an exorbinate amount of time to load hotplug, look at dmesg to see what is 'locking' it up, and blacklist that hardware.
 
Old 06-06-2006, 01:59 AM   #5
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