syslogd startup slow bootup -- why?
I've just installed bash_2.0-2 and sysklogd_1.3-14 among other things
(but these are relevant to the question) and generally the bootup
sequence hangs for 10 seconds, just after syslogd is started, and just
before klogd starts. There are no error messages in any of the logs,
and there is no abnormal amount of CPU usage by syslogd when it runs, so
I don't think that there's anything wrong with the daemon, maybe
something in the /etc/init.d/syslogd script that might be causing the
slight interruption. Has anyone else noticed this, and is it documented
somewhere that I might read something about it? I have everything else
set up properly (I'm almost sure) as there are not other errors or
hiccups occuring elsewhere. Can anyone shed any light on this situation
for me ?
Something else I've noticed, which has piqued my curiosity. My system is
a PPro 200 with two fairly similar 2.1 gig SCSI HD's (Quantum Fireball
and Quantum Empire) on a NCR53c810 scsi adaptor and I have these drives
partitioned up (linux, win95, win-nt). On one 800 meg partition, I've
installed Redhat 4.1, and on another 800 meg partition (the other drive)
I have installed Debian 1.2 with some recent upgrades. I've installed a
few upgrades on both systems, generally to libc-5.4.23,
binutils-2.7.0.9, X11R6-3.2, ld.so-1.8.10, etc, and also have installed
Accelerated X server and Common Desktop Environment with similar setups
on both systems (I was bored one day, and started experimenting...) Now,
I've noticed something, and this is no professional experiment with
stopwatches or anything, but it seems as if the Debian release is faster
at running certain things (kernel compile, starting CDE, etc) and
definitely have noticed (from running "top" or "ps aux", etc.) that %CPU
and %MEM totals are generally lower (like up to 50% lower) with the
Debian release of linux. What gives, I thought all releases were
reasonably similar in operation ? Is there something magical that the
Debian developers have done with linux, that has escaped the other chaps
releasing linux OS, ie Redhat, Slackware, et al ?
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Regards
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