Hi, A couple of days ago readahead-fedora made its way into the archive. Note that this implementation is *not* based on the 'readahead' package.
The package description lists some of the differences between the two readahead implementations currently in the archive. In general you should get a faster boot with readahead-fedora. If you don't, please let me know! But beware: bootchart may say readahead-fedora made the boot take longer, but this happens because readahead-fedora also preloads some files that are used right after booting (kdm/gdm/xdm, etc) which improves the to-login time. To get started: 1. apt-get install readahead-fedora 2. reboot and pass the "profile" boot option (just like you were used to when you used readahead). 3. Following boots should be faster. Now some more notes: * If you have readahead installed make sure you disable it before you start using readahead-fedora. Having both running won't help at all :) * Read /usr/share/doc/readahead-fedora/README * You can tweak readahead-fedora via /etc/default/readahead-fedora and /etc/readahead.conf (the latter should not need any tweaking, though) * If you have the preload daemon installed readahead-fedora should play more or less nice with it. * If you want to benchmark the boot process with a standard bootchart (i.e. one that stops after rc2.d) you should set /etc/default/readahead-fedora's READAHEAD_EXTRA_COLLECT to 0 and re-profile. * Yes, the readahead process (of the -fedora package) might take longer than its counterpart of the readahead package, but the overall boot process should be faster. * readahead-fedora supports /usr and /var as separate partitions, but the performance might not, yet, be the best as it could get. * If you are not using Debian's standard kernels make sure you built it with CONFIG_AUDIT=y, otherwise the collector won't work. * If you are running testing you might need to rebuild the package due to a library transition in sid. By the way, it is strongly recommended that you install and enable insserv (if you are using current sid it is already installed and enabled). I will later come up with some extra tools and recommendations. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
