Am Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:52:04 +0300 schrieb Marko M?kel? <marko.makela@xxxxxx>: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 09:29:04PM +0200, Christoph Hermanns wrote: >> Hello out there ! >> >> Is it possible to speed up the vdr start (e.g. on my system) ??? >> I'm running vdr on a SuSE 8.2 System with 2.4 Kernel driver. >> >> The start of the runvdr script is initiated by >> a runlevel script (runlevel 3 and 5). >> >> It took about 90 seconds until i got a picture. > > This topic has been covered in the German VDR wiki > <http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/VDR_Bootzeiten>. > In http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wikiindex.php/VDR_Bootzeiten There are only times compared on this web-side, but no hints about the speedup tricks. But i read the topic on vdrportal.de before, my boot time was even longer before i reorder the runlevel scripts manually. > For the record, my 900 MHz system starts up in 40 seconds. Some 11 > or 12 seconds are wasted in the proprietary BIOS. I'd use LinuxBIOS if > my mainboard were supported by it. > > To shorten the boot time, I removed almost everything that is not > strictly necessary: hotplug, usb drivers, X11, SMTP daemon, network > file systems, fam, cron, syslogd, etc. Basically, only > VDR+softdevice+DirectFB and OpenSSH are running. Most drivers are > compiled into the kernel (currently 2.6.12.3). > My intention is 1.st to start the dvb-driver and vdr and after that all other things, then it should be unimportant what is started after the vdr. >> How can i speed up the starting of the dvb driver and vdr ? > > I'd also like to know if there's a way to postpone the scanning of > existing recordings when starting up. The scan takes a couple of seconds > on my system. It'd be nicer to start showing video while scanning. > >> When i run the runvdr script manually, it took also a few seconds before >> the picture is shown on tv. Can this startup be speeded up ? >> Any hints are welcome. > > Use OProfile to identify the bottlenecks in vdr startup. What is OProfile ? Is it part of any standard gcc package ? From where can I get OProfile ? Christoph
