Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable. The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly by optimizing how the hard drive is used. It make sure the kernel disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the files used during boot. To test it, install readahead, boot once with 'profile' as a kernel option to tune it to your boot, and then boot normally.
It should not be used with preload (or at least, the profiling should never be done when preload is enabled), as it will make readahead believe that all the files loaded by preload are used during boot, and thus waste time and kernel disk cache on files only needed after the boot. I welcome benchmarks on the initscripts-ng-devel mailing list, <URL:http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel>. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
