Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache
 

Thanks for taking care about this.

It's also quite important to speed up live systems that use squashfs
(like debian-live), because the output of readahead can directly be used
by mksquashfs via the -sort command.

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On 14/01/08 at 10:50 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable.
> The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly
> by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel
> disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the
> files used during boot. To test it, install readahead, boot once with
> 'profile' as a kernel option to tune it to your boot, and then boot
> normally.

Couldn't the learning phase be started automatically if the profiling
data is not available or too old?
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[Lucas Nussbaum]
> Couldn't the learning phase be started automatically if the profiling
> data is not available or too old?

Sure. But what is too old? It seem to be a slow process when I run
it in qemu, so I am not sure if it is a good idea to activate it
automatically.

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On Mo, 14 Jan 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Sure. But what is too old? It seem to be a slow process when I run
> it in qemu, so I am not sure if it is a good idea to activate it
> automatically.

BTW, could you add some lines do README.Debian to explain how readahead
should be used for boot sequences? There is missing any form of
documentation currently?

At least on my version:
readahead 1:0.20050517.0220-1

Thanks and all the best

Norbert

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[Norbert Preining]
> BTW, could you add some lines do README.Debian to explain how
> readahead should be used for boot sequences? There is missing any
> form of documentation currently?

I'll see what I can do. Please submit such requests to BTS to make
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:50:12 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen
<pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable.
>The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly
>by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel
>disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the
>files used during boot. To test it, install readahead, boot once with
>'profile' as a kernel option to tune it to your boot, and then boot
>normally.

Will this speed up waking up from hibernation as well?

Greetings
Marc, cursed with a notebook that doesn't cleanly wake up from
suspend-to-ram

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[Marc Haber]
> Will this speed up waking up from hibernation as well?

It is not involved in hibernation, as far as I know. Only during
boot.

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