Dave Jones wrote: > Some of the folks on our desktop team have been doing a bunch of experiments > at getting boot times down, including laying out the blocks in a more > optimal manner, allowing /sbin/readahead to slurp the data off the disk > in one big chunk, and run almost entirely from cache.
What are the cons of using "all of" the RAM at boot time to cache the boot disk? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters) - 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/