On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:29:11AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > This ITP is similar to my readahead ITP #325885. I suspect only one > of these packages is needed in Debian. Do you recommend preload over > the ubuntu readahead package?
I don't know. But the point is a bit moot now... preload is already uploaded to the archive. It'll take a week or so to arrive to unstable now. > <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/325885 > > > This issue has been discussed a bit on the initscripts-ng mailing > list. Are you on this list? No. First time I've heard of that list. Besides, upstream's documentation mentioned that using preload during boot actually slowed down the boot. I've put preload start relatively late during the boot. >From the NEWS file: This is the first public release of preload. It runs as a daemon and monitors processes through /proc and predicts applications that may run and prefetches binaries and shared object. In my experience, it reduced the startup time of OpenOffice.org writer right after a reboot from 13 seconds to 7 seconds, and Firefox from 9 to 7. It also decreased the time from entering login/password information in gdm to a usable dekstop is loaded from 37s to 32s. On the other hand though, the time from power button is pressed to gdm login screen is functional, was increased from 65s to 85s, due to excessive harddisk activitiy caused by preload. I haven't performed any benchmarks myself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
