Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Casey Dahlin]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:16:36 -0500 (EST)
> Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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>>> Or hibernate?
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>> At least on my system hibernate takes as much time as a reboot.
>>
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>
> btw this is a very fundamental property of hibernate. You need to do all
> disk IO to get the system state to disk. And then at resume, you need
> to do all disk IO to get the state from disk again. That's twice ;)
>
> This is compounded by the property that a hibernate tends to flush at
> least half the disk cache (it has to, to get space to work in), which
> you then need to page right back in, so even when you're back, the first
> minute or two sucks badly.
>
> I suspect you will always be able to boot faster than you can
> hibernate+resume.
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Slightly off subject, did sreadahead ever get publicly released? Did I 
miss it?

--CJD