Re: Request: I/O request recording

[Ville Herva]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:26:17PM +0100, you [Arjan van de Ven] wrote:
> 
> I recently did something like this (and it scared me, it seems a typical
> Fedora boot into gnome opens like 11.000 files ;) but via a printk in
> the kernel....
> 
> I experimented with readahead'ing all that stuff while the initscripts
> ran in the hope it would save time... but it doesn't somehow.

Did you sort the sectors to be read, or just read the files into page cache
in randomish order ?

Or do you mean that even after all the files were read into cache, the X
startup time didn't get any better (not counting the cache priming)?

 
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