I made the two above changes on my Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad X60 laptop. The result was 10 seconds gained on boot time.
I also tried this on an older whitebox, with 512MB memory and a P4 1.4 Ghz proc. and only saw a boot up time increase of 5 seconds. -- Bootup is consistently faster when readahead is not daemonized https://launchpad.net/bugs/59716 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
