I thought bootup was mostly I/O limited on most systems, unless the readahead really gets almost everything into the cache. disk seeks are slow, and there are a _lot_ of small config files to read. And then there's sleeps while modules detect hardware after they load, and network (dhcp) delays.
Won't a reasonable governor bump up the cpu speed when needed? It seems like a real waste to have the cpu at full speed while waiting for DHCP. Of course, I can't argue with real data. What CPU, RAM, and disk do you have? and how fast is your disk: RPM is a pretty good measure of seek time, and hdparm -t /dev/hda is a useful sequential read test. -- Use performance governor during boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/9805 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
