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Old 01-01-2013, 08:27 PM   #1
ktjoe
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Question Boost boot time (RHEL6)


Hi all,

Is there a quite easy way to boost the RHEL6 boot time?

I've done to disable unnecessary services, disable some network ports (from having IP from DHCP) but still having 2-5 minutes start up.

Can anyone give some enlightment?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin
 
Old 01-02-2013, 09:29 AM   #2
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Depends on what is slow... Network activity (especially NFS mounting) can take quite a while. And it takes a bit for DHCP to setup depending on other network activity.

2 minutes may be sendmail taking time to resolve its identity (which goes away if you have it in the /etc/hosts file and it is really a static IP number).

You should be able to get it to around 1 minute (or less) though. But that assumes you have static IP numbers, not using DHCP, and have appropriate names in the /etc/hosts file.
 
Old 01-02-2013, 11:05 AM   #3
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what is your hardware ?

for example i have a VERY old box with a p4 ( from 2001 ) a gforce2 ( yes 2 ) nvidia card and 1 gig ram

ScientificLinux 6.3 boots up in about 1.5 min.
from push "power" to user is logged in

as "jpollard" said NFS can take time
and so can the network connection
-- How are you connecting to the network ?

install"bootchart" it should be in the RHN repo

Code:
su -
yum search bootchart
---- then if listed ----
yum install bootchart
http://www.bootchart.org/

then see what is causing the problem

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Old 01-02-2013, 11:15 AM   #4
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This computer has an AMD Sempron, 1GB RAM, and no graphics card. It boots in about 40 seconds!

I think something is very wrong. Interrupt the boot, edit grub, and remove "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line. Then you can watch the boot reports and see at what stage things slow up.
 
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Old 01-02-2013, 04:59 PM   #5
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To John: This machine is Intel i7 with 4 GB RAM using RHEL6.

To David: Thanks for the tips, i will try it.


Other questions:
1. How to set other service starting in the background, so the login console tty1 appears as soon as possible?
2. How to make SSH service to be highest priority (i want other users to be able to ssh in asap and leave the other services start up in the background) ?
 
Old 01-02-2013, 09:42 PM   #6
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I was having similar problems with my asus m4a89-gtd pro usb3 until about 5 minutes ago, although it wasn't taking upto 5mins. My problems were in the bios, I disabled Quick-boot, acpi, F1 stop to load setup. Put it on pnp to let linux control devices. If I ever boot wins7 it will probably be a BSOD.
Now it takes about 40 secs to boot which is slow for the money I spent on it a few years ago.
Just checked 1min 15secs from boot, login screen & menu- bar in gnome 3

Last edited by EDDY1; 01-02-2013 at 10:08 PM.
 
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Old 01-03-2013, 10:33 AM   #7
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You will want this information for prioritizing startups:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HighQualit...OWTO/boot.html

Also, googling for 'init.d priorities' will lead you in the right direction, as to me, there is no simple explanation.
 
  


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