[wplug] Hard Drive Partitions - Windows 7 NetBook

[Greg Simkins]

Wow Mackenzie!  You always come up with these obscure but important little points.  I have no clue about readahead and its impact on bootup.  

I found a bug report on Karmic at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ureadahead/+bug/432360

It referred me to /etc/init/sreadahead.conf
and recommends changing
start on starting mountall
to
start on local-filesystems

My current config file lists:
start on starting mountall
stop on stopped rc

Should I change that to start on local-filesystems?  

Greg




On Nov 26, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Greg Simkins <gregsimkins at me.com> wrote:
>> Also, the ubuntu seems to come up slowly.  Perhaps I need to
>> stuff another GB or Ram into this machine.
> 
> Is it currently using sreadahead or ureadahead?  There was an SRU to
> put ureadahead in, in place of sreadahead because it turned out that
> while sreadahead was faster for SSDs it completely KILLED boot
> performance for radial hard disks.
> 
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