Yes, for instance when resuming from hibernation it slurps in at ~40MB/s. I guess rearranging things on disk like MacOSX (and windows?) does is a bit too complicated.
Why is everything else blocked while ureadahead is reading? I would think some tasks can find their needed pieces in the cache meanwhile and could start doing something? -- open()ing files takes a long time with low throughput https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492841 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs