I was following along with these guides(because I wanted to speed up linux):
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?p=14791#14791
uncholowapo
You can stop services in YDL. It helped me here is a list of services that I have disabled.
* anacron
* atd
* avahi-daemon
* bluetooth
* cpuspeed
* cups
* hidd
* hplip
* ip6tables
* iprinit
* iprdump
* iprupdate
* isdn
* mcstrans
* mdmonitor
* nfslock
* pcscd
* restorecond
* rpcbind
* rpcgssd
* rpcimapd
* sendmail
* setroubleshoot
* smartd
* sshd
* yum-updatesd
It is taken from the install guide of Fedora 7 from our moderator billb. Some services might not be there but most of them are there. Also note that you have to disable them on both runlevel's 3 and 5. Up near the top you will see a drop down menu that says Runlevel.
tcrroadie
If you are using Gnome, you can find the GUI service manager under System > Administration > Services.
I have another tip for you on how to increase system performance. You can increase hard drive read and writer performance a bit by setting a couple additional mount options on your system. Here is how.
1. Open a terminal and switch to your root user.
2. We are going to edit a file called /etc/fstab. Lets back it up first by running in your terminal
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cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
3. Next open up /etc/fstab in gedit
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gedit /etc/fstab
4. Add the mount options noatime and nodiratime to your root partition and home partition if you have a separate partition for your home directory. As an example, here is what my fstab looks like.
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 2
spufs /spu spufs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-ps3da2 swap swap defaults 0 0
Save the file and exit gedit. The new mount options you added will be applied the next time you boot your system.
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3497&start=45#p28041
bonedome
Hello
along with stopping unused services there's a couple of other ways to increase the small amount of available RAM that've been buried in the forum but here they are.
in the file /etc/inittab you can disable some or all of your "virtual terminals" (the terminal you get if you type Ctrl Alt F1) this only frees up a few hundred Kbs per terminal but hey who needs 6 of them.
type this into a terminal
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su -
root password
gedit /etc/inittab
once open look for these lines
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# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
I only have the one, so I've edited it to look like this
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# Run gettys in standard runlevels
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
#2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
I'd recommend having at least one uncommented.
And I think I messed up on something from the first two quotes above..
Because when I started up my ps3 after doing these things, heres what happend:
* I switched to Linux from the Game OS;
* took me to the boot screen with the two penguins where it sets the video output;
* it successfully went past the video boot with the two penguins;
* then it takes me to the main boot (YDL boot up screen) where it shows me what works and what doesn't with either an [OK] or [FAILD] indications (They all passed);
* but here's where the problem lies, at the beginning of the screen where it has the YDL logo on top with the version listed underneath(6.2) and towards the bottom of the screen it has a blue box with a lite blue striped bar going across and a button -> Show Details..
* At the beginning of this part i get this:
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Loading default key map (us): [OK]
Setting hostname localhost.localdomain: [OK]
Setting up local volume management: [OK]
Checking filesystems
fsck.ext3: unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
[FAILD]
***An error occurred during filesystem check.
***Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
***When you leave the shell.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type control-D to continue)
And here is where I'm stuck and I can't do anything and I tried rebooting to see if maybe I wouldn't get this error message again, but there's no change... Oh and I logged into the shell with the root password and it gives me this
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(Repair filesystem) 1 #
[EDIT]Actually I think I messed up on the second quote, Oh and nano works.. Soo if i type: "nano /etc/fstab" it takes me to edit that page, but idk what to edit it to... Plus, I set mine up to look like his (from the above quote)
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 1
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 2
spufs /spu spufs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-ps3da2 swap swap defaults 0 0
But I guess his setup doesn't work for me [EDIT]
[EDIT]Here's what my /etc/fstab looks like before I changed it:
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LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
spufs /spu spufs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP=ps3da3 swap swap defaults 0 0
In nano if I try to save this file, it says that I cant make any changes to it, because it has read only privlages
I think I have this guys problem:
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3497&start=30
zeroword
I have tried the fstab edit and both times it has prevented me from logging into linux. It tells me the file system is now read-only. What did I do wrong?
Maybe I can resolve my problem with this method:
billbzeroword wrote:I have tried the fstab edit and both times it has prevented me from logging into linux. It tells me the file system is now read-only. What did I do wrong?
Hard to say without knowing exactly what you did or having any idea of what kind of error your getting at startup.
You should be able to get at your /etc/fstab file using the boot recovery method here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3097
Though the /etc/fstab file is probably on /dev/sda2 instead of /dev/sda1 (in the / partition, /etc/yaboot.conf is a link to /etc/yaboot.conf on the /boot partition, but /etc/fstab is probably actually on the / partition).
I think I'm answering my own questions here...[EDIT]
Any help would be appreciated(if not then I'll re-install 6.2 soon)