Re: Speeding up program starts with squashfs

"Derek Tracy" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 May 2007 15:46:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.performance
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/9/07, Roman Zimmermann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch 09 Mai 2007 21:28 schrieb Derek Tracy:
> > You may want to look into using ReadAhead, some of the newer init
> systems
> > are using it to decrease boot time.
>
> Sorry, I think you missunderstood something: I already using readahead and
> it's not boot time I'm interested in. This is currently the smaller amount
> of
> time.
> I'm interested in program start times _after_ the system is booted.
>
> Thanks for answering though.
>
> Roman
>
>
Right but isn't it possible to utilize readahead to "pre-load" a ramdisk,
that way the io is happening before X is even ready to come up.



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