Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2009-03-29 Thread Julian Andres Klode
#readahead-list (1:1.20060421.1016-5) unstable; urgency=low # # * Allow to run in the background, see README.Debian (Closes: #481369) # package readahead-list readahead tags 481369 + pending thanks On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:49:18PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:53:33

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-09-30 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:53:33 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Running it in the background would mean you were seeking the disk all over the shop, On a solid state disk (CompactFlash, USB stick or otherwise), there is no overhead due to seeking. For rotating disks the kernel uses an elevator

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-06-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 18:09 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 15.05.2008, 17:14 +0200 schrieb Alberto: Since version 1:0.20050517.0220-0ubuntu4, readahead runs in the foreground, not the background, in order to avoid i/o concurrency (which is slow). Not true. It runs

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-05-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Alberto] I send attached both graphs as you suggested [bootchartioniced.png (image/png, inline)] [bootchartnotioniced.png (image/png, inline)] The graphs look strange. Are you sure the profiling worked as it should? The readahead run do not seem to have loaded all the files needed by the

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-05-15 Thread Alberto
package: readahead version: 1.20060421.1016-3 severity: wishlist Since version 1:0.20050517.0220-0ubuntu4, readahead runs in the foreground, not the background, in order to avoid i/o concurrency (which is slow). A better approach: run with the ionice wrapper (not available at time of

Bug#481369: run ioniced and in background

2008-05-15 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Donnerstag, den 15.05.2008, 17:14 +0200 schrieb Alberto: package: readahead version: 1.20060421.1016-3 severity: wishlist Since version 1:0.20050517.0220-0ubuntu4, readahead runs in the foreground, not the background, in order to avoid i/o concurrency (which is slow). A better