Boot speedup with readahead

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 15:35:34 +0200
Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please!! make a video of that and full documentation on how to get
> that done! i'm gona try that out as well when there are docs on how to
> do it.
> 
> I sure hope your right in a 5 second boot.
> I hope it's still with:
> - Grub (or grub 2)
> - that new rhgb replacement
> - gdm/kdm/slim/xdm
> 
> Or do you make somekind of a boot dump and start that the next time
> you boot?
> 

without spoiling the presentation.. no we don't do fakes like
suspend/resume etc.

we start counting at the grub screen and stop counting when the GUI is
on the screen and the CPU and disk are idle.

we're not using rhgb (why would we? it's on the screen maybe at 8
seconds.. we're done at 5)


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