Veeerrrryyy slow boot beeps on VIA M10000
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i'm running embedded on p4 with 1gb ram and cf card. same thing… slow beeps, longer boot, but admin page is almost as fast as usual.
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Yeah it's normal when you're running from CF.
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Good deal. Thanks. I installed a CF version in another system today - an older dell 1.7GHz P4 box - and saw the same behavior. Same, except everything else is much faster. A couple simple tests show great throughput! Looks like small is about to be replaced by fast.
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It is due to us using a kern.hz="100" on embedded.
Just consider it a "feature".
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Is there any 'easy' aka 'i'm not a developer' way to change this value? Or is it possible to simply turn off the beep altogether?
–Tim
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BUMP
Anybody?
–Tim
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You can change your hz by adding a "kern.hz=blah" line to /boot/loader.conf, replacing "blah" with a number (like 1000 will make the beeps their "normal" length). I don't know how you can disable it.
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Thank you! I may try setting the value to '0' to disable. However, speeding up the process will greatly help. As you can imagine, it is extremely irritating. Thank you again!!!
–Tim
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Do NOT run at kern.hz=0. The system probably won't even boot. That's the system timing, the beeps just happen to be affected by that setting.
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By modifying this setting, what effects will it have on the system as a whole? Will it affect latency?
–Tim
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It won't have any effect (at reasonable values, 100-2000 or so) unless you're using polling as it determines the polling rate. Polling use isn't recommended.