Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From: Derek Tracy <tracyde@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 19:48:45
Message-Id: 9999810b0705091246n233c02b4g950c9ae47bb4efb5@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs by Roman Zimmermann
1 On 5/9/07, Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > Am Mittwoch 09 Mai 2007 21:28 schrieb Derek Tracy:
4 > > You may want to look into using ReadAhead, some of the newer init
5 > systems
6 > > are using it to decrease boot time.
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8 > Sorry, I think you missunderstood something: I already using readahead and
9 > it's not boot time I'm interested in. This is currently the smaller amount
10 > of
11 > time.
12 > I'm interested in program start times _after_ the system is booted.
13 >
14 > Thanks for answering though.
15 >
16 > Roman
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19 Right but isn't it possible to utilize readahead to "pre-load" a ramdisk,
20 that way the io is happening before X is even ready to come up.
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Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@×××××.com>