Fedora Core 6<br>I've had the laptop for 2 weeks<br>I'm using ext3, but as I understand, journaling is optional, and I don't know how to check to see if its on.<br>I can tell you that watching it boot, I don't see any consistency checks going on.
<br>By init scripts, I assume chkconfig is one way to check/configure those? I haven't yet developed my leet Linux ninja abilities to the point where I'm comfortable trolling around the init directories. I have, however pruned things with chkconfig and gnome's graphical service editor.
<br>I'm looking up that preemptible thing right now...<br><br>Thanks for your help!<br>-Billy<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeremy Fowler</b> <<a href="mailto:JFowler@westrope.com">
JFowler@westrope.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What distro are you using? How old is it? Some things off the top of my
<br>head:<br><br>Make sure your using a journaling file system. Ext2 Can be quite slow<br>when booting up when it does consistency checks.<br><br>Check your init scripts and disable things you don't use often.<br><br>
Make sure that your kernel is built with the Preemtible (Low Latency<br>Desktop) Model turned on.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>