Boot speedup with readahead

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Sun Sep 7 20:27:11 UTC 2008


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:35:34 +0200
> Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Please!! make a video of that and full documentation on how to get
>> that done! i'm gona try that out as well when there are docs on how to
>> do it.
>>
>> I sure hope your right in a 5 second boot.
>> I hope it's still with:
>> - Grub (or grub 2)
>> - that new rhgb replacement
>> - gdm/kdm/slim/xdm
>>
>> Or do you make somekind of a boot dump and start that the next time
>> you boot?
>>
> 
> without spoiling the presentation.. 

While the presentation is well and good, I hope that delaying it for the
presentation won't make it miss F10, if that would otherwise be a
possibility? :)

-Eric

> no we don't do fakes like
> suspend/resume etc.
> 
> we start counting at the grub screen and stop counting when the GUI is
> on the screen and the CPU and disk are idle.
> 
> we're not using rhgb (why would we? it's on the screen maybe at 8
> seconds.. we're done at 5)
> 
> 




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