Feedback for readahead
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Mon Jan 14 19:50:16 UTC 2008
[Wolf Wiegand]
> - Adding 'profile' to the kernel command line would not initiate the
> readahead profiling process, as /proc/ does not seem to be mounted at
> the moment the readahead scripts are running. The error message "grep:
> /proc/cmdline: No such file or directory" was printed on the screen.
> To workaround this for once, I modified the init script to run the
> profiling process anyway, rebooted, and undid these changes. Is
> readahead supposed to only work with an initial ramdisk?
Aha, so that is the reason why /proc/ isn't mounted. The correct fix
is to move the script after S02mountkernfs, to make sure it is running
after /proc/ is mounted. Please report the issue to BTS to make sure
I do not forget it in the next update of the package.
> - readahead improved the time needed for booting (from hitting
> 'enter' on the grub command line to gdm appearing) from about 58 sec
> to 53 sec.
Great to hear. :)
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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