On 8/6/05, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
> What on earth does it try to read ahead? I could see maybe scanning
> filesystems, and then reading those files which were most recently read
> (though obviously not during boot) but that sounds expensive.
>
On my FC4 system at least it's a list of files in /etc/readahead.files
that was installed as part of the readahead package. From the
documentation:
"readahead reads a list of files in advance and adds the pages to the page
cache."
Cian
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