init observations

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> said:
> It's disk seek on shared libraries, almost certianly. It's the majority
> of lag time on *any* startup these days, including the OS itself.

I know we have prelink, but has someone considered a defrag-like thing
that could work with prelink to re-arrange the libraries on the disk for
better performance?  IIRC Windows has the ability to do this and it is
supposed to really help.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.