Disabling readahead

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:17:33AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
 > Paul F. Johnson wrote:
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I have readahead currently running on my test rig (x86_64, rawhide), but it's
 > > currently giving me all sorts of problems, so much so that the box is pretty
 > > unusable (random hangs abound and hugely varied times to getting the desktop
 > > to boot - I've tried to file BZ reports, but the machine dies before I can).
 > >
 > > I've read that readahead is currently broken in rawhide. Normally, my machine
 > > boots directly to runlevel 5. Can I alter on the kernel boot line for it jump
 > > to level 3? I can then disable the readahead service.
 > 
 > 
 > I'd honestly be surprised if the readahead scripts are the culprit - how
 > did you identify readahead as the problem?  The "brokenness" is really
 > mostly about inefficiency, as far as I know.

Agreed. If you see a hang with it enabled, it's a sign of a bigger problem elsewhere.

	Dave

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