Boot poster challenge

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 15 05:35:49 UTC 2004


Arjan van de Ven (arjanv at redhat.com) said: 
> On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:41 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > My point is basically to move away from "is rhgb a bottleneck", 
> > "would parallelization help?" speculation, and have a single graphical
> > display that can immediately provide those answers.
> 
> if you go parallal, you *have* to do the readahead-early thing,
> otherwise you just seek your disk to death and end up being slower most
> likely....

Bah.

Just do the readahead on the first boot., and then reorient your disk blocks
in the desktop background thereafter. :)

Bill




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