Hello all,

I am using a Compaq Armada E500 - PII 750 MHZ 256 MB ram.

i get about 2 minutes 15 seconds boot up time on FC3. IS this normal?

how can i speed things up for bootup. i use autologin for tty1 and use .bash_profile for startx ..

any services not needed should be stopped etc ? this laptop is used purely for single workstation stuff .. browsing internet, word processing and print ..

now-a-days i start the machine, go make a coffee and com back ..

FC is pretty bloated. I'd be looking at another distro but lets try and tackle this one your way

Once it's booted, look for a Services manager or something, it should be there. Use that to disable everything you don't need, which should be just about everything for a single workstation. If you're unsure about any of them just list them here and we'll give the go or stop sign

tx for reply cs-cam ... this is output of

ls S* of /etc/rc3.d/

S06cpuspeed
S08iptables
S10network
S12syslog
S13irqbalance
S13portmap
S14nfslock
S18rpcgssd
S19rpcidmapd
S19rpcsvcgssd
S25netfs
S26apmd
S26lm_sensors
S28autofs
S33nifd
S34mDNSResponder
S40smartd
S44acpid
S56xinetd
S85gpm
S87iiim
S90crond
S90xfs
S97messagebus
S98haldaemon
S99local

Tx in advance for reply ..

which services should be stopped any idea ?

First off, tell us what results you get from this

hdparm -tT /dev/hda

It might be /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc. The easy to check is with mount and then use whatever is mounted as / or /boot, assuming your using a single harddrive.

If the Timing buffered disk reads are around atleast 30 mb/s then we no atleast its not a disk controller issue.


Then get your swap usage. If its close to being fully used up then maybe its as simple as increasing your swap. FC is supposed to automatically set all this stuff though so I doubt thats it.


Once all of that is out the way, you can try this.

http://initng.thinktux.net

Installation is as simple changing init your kernel parmater to init=/sbin/initng once you have the program installed ofcourse.

If thats not enough, you try this.

www.suspend2.net/

I think its automatically installed with some distros. Atleast Suse has nice convienient little gui for it.

Also you might want consider switching window managers to something a little less resource intensive, like fluxbox. Which loads significantly faster than KDE or Gnome.