From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 16:17:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B137A16A4CE for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FB243D39 for ; Wed, 12 May 2004 16:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4CNHqb5014260; Wed, 12 May 2004 17:17:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i4CNHpPH014257; Wed, 12 May 2004 17:17:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 17:17:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Rob In-Reply-To: <40A20FF0.7000104@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <20040512171150.X14206@wonkity.com> References: <20040512030140.61217.qmail@web20501.mail.yahoo.com> <20040512053121.U12889@wonkity.com> <40A20FF0.7000104@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040504, clamav-milter version 0.70u X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:17:53 -0000 On Wed, 12 May 2004, Rob wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > >> I've heard a lot of comments about the booting > >>process of freebsd, that it is much faster than > >>booting into Linux. > > > > It is. > > I also seem to remember that from my long-time-back linux experience. > Given a same amount of services to run on either system, what are obvious, > easy to understand, reasons for FreeBSD to be quicker than Linux? I don't know. 8-) All I know is that some time back I tried FreeBSD 4.x (I think) and a couple of Linux versions on the same system, and FreeBSD was noticeably quicker at bringing up KDE and running it. > > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > I once tried that, but the system was cluttering up lots of undeliverable > emails to root. Apparently system maintenance reports its results by > email to root, and cannot deliver it without having basic sendmail running. There's some information in the man page for 'periodic' that lets you change the email to log files, and control what is logged. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA