readahead_early
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 18 23:14:50 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:51:28PM -0800, Ted Bolver wrote:
> readahead
> readahead_early
....
> Is there a distinction between them;
Yes. see the list of files that are read.
> Do you need them *both* checkboxed;
You do not need either.
The readahead process preloads the buffer cache with files that might
be paged in one 'page demand triggered' read at a time. This can
speed things up of boxes with enough DRAM.
BIG Programs like OO that are started with a wraper script could
use this trick to advantage in some cases.
> Incidentally they've both got exactly the same service
> descriptions ie:
>
> ""This service causes the programs used during startup
> to be loaded into memory before they are needed, thus
> improving startup performance""
/etc/init.d/readahead: /usr/sbin/readahead `cat /etc/readahead.files` &
/etc/init.d/readahead_early: /usr/sbin/readahead `cat /etc/readahead.early.files` &
So the difference is /etc/readahead.files and /etc/readahead.early.files.
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