On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 00:43 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > There's stuff that it could be done in the kernel to help improving those > numbers, > IMHO. > > xp logs all the io done the first two minutes after booting. The next time it > boots > it tries to read all those files at once so the programs will find stuff in > memory > instead of having to do lots of small seeks.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. ISTR hearing that some of the distros are working on similar solutions. Now this would be a big win, as anyone who has seen how much faster XP boots than Win2K can tell you. And would certainly require kernel support. Of course resuming from suspend will always be faster than booting but for the forseeable future we will have to reboot from time to time. And XP's boot time currently is way, way better than ours. FWIW, OSX still takes forever to boot so we are not the only ones with this problem. I wonder if XP's solution is patented. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
