Ubuntu already improved their boot time

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Erich Schubert wrote:

>Hi,
>  
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>>One of the low-hanging fruits are to add a readahead package (and the
>>related readahead-list package) to Debian.  No idea why no-one did
>>this already, but I registered a WNPP request for it (#325885).
>>    
>>
>
>Btw, I just updated my readahead-list code, it now builds with
>dietlibc into a statically-linked binary of 1.2k total.
>But I remember having recently read about someone claiming that
>readahead didn't improve his boot speeds at all.
>Also I'm looking forward to this new readahead daemon upcoming as one
>of the Google Summer projects. That one is expected to learn the
>readahead list for your desktop.
>  
>
Which one?  I already wrote a readahead daemon for initng, and converted
it into a seperate daemon not long ago.

>On my system - running minit, parallel boot and readahead - it looks
>that by far the slowest part of the system boot is udev+hotplug (not
>sure which of them is really to blame).
>
>best regards,
>Erich Schubert
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