Boot speedup with readahead

[Harald Hoyer]

Eric Sandeen schrieb:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Hello fellow Fedora developers,
>>
>> recently readahead was modified to adapt to system file changes and to start very early in the boot process 
>> via upstart.
> 
> Glad to see that!  Sorry I helped put the hammer down on older readahead
> in the F8 era... but it was pretty broken back then ... ;)
> 
>> I would like to encourage you to test readahead-1.4.5-3.fc10 from rawhide (even possible on F9), which I built 
>> some minutes ago. It may take a day to reach your local mirror.
>>
>> # yum --enablerepo=rawhide install readahead
>> or
>> # yum --enablerepo=rawhide update readahead
>>
>> With the next reboot readahead-collector runs and collects the information which files are used during the 
>> boot process. The next reboot then, readahead read ahead those files and the boot process (from init start to 
>> gdm login screen) should be approx. 10% faster.
> 
> So when / how often does readahead-collector run now?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Eric

Every month.

/etc/cron.monthly/readahead-monthly.cron