From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-performance+bounces-103-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Hls9U-0002wg-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 19:48:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l49JkBOj030332; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:46:11 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l49JkAS3030327 for <gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 9 May 2007 19:46:11 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so95128ana for <gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 09 May 2007 12:46:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=GMEqvFpBt79DjP0h6QhBZ2L9x3VLLxJlHAY3KC8ReALoUGgHEkqnmgk2TTfJIj8SvhqUA+fe+YU8GSlwfNvhCzWHYsnYUwrOP1Ra+7Oxg7SlA+qDTBHa4CtiMLfg1ecPzGpTKtcjzg9xax+MK53Vo7GlmlUuAvgUYURUlx++Jgk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=L4pIdlxz5H3Uaq2MSSSFbEgmVwx898SXHvJ1P7Pe4oHOAIZosVvAyrARgtqKW44Ow+JeKWQ5gKuCMdG7NHUtamBIHbAEJzntfTjW6+nK4XiSWt3EyHdcb/xp5YsqZQxcfIQDJtsvvSesapPFyMe1clHV+6r5vH71VRtHr1jQaos= Received: by 10.100.108.11 with SMTP id g11mr662346anc.1178739969602; Wed, 09 May 2007 12:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.91.7 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 12:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9999810b0705091246n233c02b4g950c9ae47bb4efb5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:46:09 -0400 From: "Derek Tracy" <tracyde@gmail.com> To: gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] Speeding up program starts with squashfs In-Reply-To: <200705092136.12031.mereandor@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-performance+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-performance+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-performance+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-performance.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-performance@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-performance@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_133253_30201825.1178739969543" References: <200705092110.53174.mereandor@gmail.com> <9999810b0705091228g524ac634q1624509533a6b937@mail.gmail.com> <200705092136.12031.mereandor@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5b5c66ec-291e-44c8-8e42-6d0fac3183c5 X-Archives-Hash: 521c3bd918156ae71b9c3fe512cb5a1e ------=_Part_133253_30201825.1178739969543 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 5/9/07, Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> 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. -- --------------------------------- Derek Tracy tracyde@gmail.com --------------------------------- ------=_Part_133253_30201825.1178739969543 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roman Zimmermann</b> <<a href="mailto:mereandor@gmail.com">mereandor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Am Mittwoch 09 Mai 2007 21:28 schrieb Derek Tracy:<br>> You may want to look into using ReadAhead, some of the newer init systems<br>> are using it to decrease boot time.<br><br>Sorry, I think you missunderstood something: I already using readahead and <br>it's not boot time I'm interested in. This is currently the smaller amount of<br>time.<br>I'm interested in program start times _after_ the system is booted.<br><br>Thanks for answering though.<br><br>Roman <br><br></blockquote></div><br>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.<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>--------------------------------- <br>Derek Tracy<br><a href="mailto:tracyde@gmail.com">tracyde@gmail.com</a><br>---------------------------------<br> ------=_Part_133253_30201825.1178739969543-- -- gentoo-performance@gentoo.org mailing list