Jim, you're right, it probably isn't needed. I just thought that it
might be helpful during the prototype phase where we will be testing the
system running for long durations without direct observation. I'll
defer to your experience, though. I would like to avoid unnecessary use
of the SD card.
My motivation for dialing down the time is that a user may toggle a
power switch on the system, and they will need to wait until everything
cleanly shuts down before actual power is cycled. I just realized that
if they turn the toggle the switch in the middle of the system booting,
they will need to wait for that boot time as well (typically 70-80
seconds)! Does anyone know what to look into to shorten the boot time?
There's a lot more that goes on before the scripts in rc2.d start running.
Don
On 5/12/2011 1:08 PM, Jim Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Don Tucker wrote:
> Well, after timing each of the steps at shutdown, most steps take a
> second or less. Shutting down apache only takes 2-3 seconds, so I don't
> really buy much from turning that daemon off. The big time sinks are
(1)
> stopping rsyslogd (~14 seconds),
Do you need it? Do you need the syslog messages? It may be luxery you can
do without. Unless I need it for debugging during development I think use
of syslogd with flash memory is something best avoided.
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