On 8/6/05, Ole Tange <ole at tange.dk> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Cian Cullinan wrote:
> Could I ask you to try meassuring the time to boot with and without the
> /etc/readahead.files?
>
OK, the quick n' dirty results:
Booting with :
neither readahead nor readahead_early enabled: 68seconds
readahead_early only enabled: 70seconds
readahead only enabled: 74seconds
readahead and readahead_early enabled: 75 seconds
So like a lot of performance tweaks readahead_early doesn't seem to
work. A reason for this though may be that I have a lot of the default
services switched off on my machine thus negating most of
readahead_early's benefits.
Enabling readahead adds a modest 6 seconds to the boot time, and
glancing at the /etc/readahead.files file it seems aimed mostly at
caching files related to X and certain common X apps.
HTH,
Cian
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