Because syslogd is not properly started its remote syslog support when klogd dumps its kernel ring buffer content to it, most of the kernel boot output is missing on the remote syslog server. By adding a small delay between syslogd and klogd, we are sure the messages are properly send to the remote syslog by syslogd.
Busybox free reports incorrectly the used and free memory on a system. Which makes it harder to understand and compare information from other sources.
In the same effort we add some other useful procps-ng tools, like pgrep, pkill, pmap, slabtop, vmstat and watch.
The version of less in busybox is quite annoying when working on OpenELEC. It doesn't properly support searching in files or tailing (and interrupting) logfiles. It also doesn't properly handle non-ascii characters. This patch disables busybox less and instead adds the latest stable less release.
Since syslogd was started before the network was up, all syslog messages before the network was up were discarded and not send to the remoe syslog server. By moving the syslogd startup until after the network, the kernel boot messages are available on the central syslog.
lsof is useful to look at all open files on the system
watch is useful for monitoring files in proc to see system behavior, eg watch -n1 cat /proc/interrupts
