IDEA: Shortening boot-time

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Jul 28 10:03:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:59:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> The fact that such results seemed impossible to achieve indicate a scheduling 
> problem with Linux software RAID and possibly block devices in general.

You can see pretty good results but you'll need a real computer. Streaming 
I/O from an ATA133 drive will saturate a PCI 33/32bit bus so it takes a 
system with decent ram, bridges, fsb and multiple PCI busses or 64/66 slots






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