Boot speedup with readahead

Christopher Brown snecklifter at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 09:09:25 UTC 2008


2008/9/7 Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>:
> David Nielsen schrieb:
>>
>>
>> 2008/9/7 Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org
>> <mailto:arjan at infradead.org>>
>>
>>
>>    for those who are going to the plumbers conference... Auke Kok and I
>>    will present there on how to make a Fedora based system boot in 5
>>    seconds...
>>
>>    and yes a form of readahead was needed to achieve that ;-)
>>
>>
>> 5 SECS??
>>
>> I sincerely hope they will be recording the talks either as audio or even
>> better as video because this I have got to see.
>>
>> - David
>>
>
> standard kernel + initrd alone takes more time than 12s on my system, so no
> chance to come to 5s without building my own kernel with all modules
> compiled in.

Is this on spinning plates or solid state?

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Christopher Brown

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