Fedora Test Day - 20 Second Startup - get your boot on!

[Harald Hoyer]

Harald Hoyer wrote:
> James Laska wrote:
>> Greetings testers,
>>
>> This week's Test Day will focus on another upcoming Fedora 11 feature:
>> 20 Second Startup [1].  This is a follow-on to a Fedora 10 effort to
>> reduce boot delay [2]. 
>> Harald Hoyer, David Kovalsky and Ondrej Hudlicky have created a test
>> procedure and looking to gather and analyze bootchart data.  Come
>> prepared with your favorite old-skool hardware setup.
>>
>> Join #fedora-qa this Thursday, February 19, 2009 to help collect and
>> analyze boot speed data.  Follow the action at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-02-19.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/20SecondStartup
>> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/30SecondStartup
>>
> 
> Thanks to all who participated!
> 
> As a first outcome a new and improved readahead-1.4.8 hit rawhide today.
> 
> readahead-1.4.8
>    - set low io priority (no more regression in boot time with readahead)
>    - moved data files from /etc/readahead.d to /var/lib/readahead
>    - don't start readahead from readahead.event if system has less than 
> 384MB
> 

Here is a blog post about the results:

http://www.harald-hoyer.de/personal/blog/20_Seconds_Boot_Feature_Test_Day