Re: Long boot times...

["David S." <dgjs@acm.org>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 05:46:59PM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote:
> Now, my next question :-)
> 
> I'm completely new to OpenBSD.  How long does it take to boot the system
> on an 8 meg machine?
> 
> My first boot after this fresh installation was slow, but ssh-keygen was
> making keys and so on.  The boot took about 30 minutes to get past
> "preserving editor files", and then finally stalled (I guess) after
> showing me the date.

The mailing list has discussed this problem.  Make sure your DNS is
properly configured so your system can resolve host names, and check
the '/var/tmp/vi.recover' directory.  At boot-up, a Perl script parses
any files in that directory and attempts to e-mail their owners.  If
remote e-mail addresses can't be resolved, you'll get delays from DNS
time-outs.  And that's apart from the delays due to running the Perl
interpreter - a notable resource hog - on a machine that's as memory
challenged as your's.

David S.