Re: Speeding up program starts with squashfs

On 5/9/07, lnxg33k <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I can't speak about squashfs. However, as Derek Tracy eluded to, you can
> do
> other things to improve performance such as running a different init
> system. I
> remembering trying init-ng a while back and it ran fine, but I didn't want
> to
> take the time to mess with it too much and reverted back to sysVinit.
> There is
> a wiki on different init systems [1].
>
> You may also want to check the forums for discussions on bootchart. This
> is a
> boot time monitor that generates graphs of load times. I've never run it,
> but
> people seem to get a lot of success from it. Hopefully that's some useful
> place
> to start even if it's not related to squashfs.
>
> [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speed_up_your_boot_time
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lnxg33k

Roman isn't looking to speed up his boot, he is looking to speed up
application startup times after boot.  I was eluding to the possibility to
use Readahead to pre-load a ramdisk immediately after the OS boots.  I
didn't want to throw his e-mail off topic.


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