[Bug 552165] Re: Boot speed increased from 30s to 50s when ureadahead enabled

[Bryan Fullerton]

No activity for almost three years, and at that time questions were
being raised about the validity -- if this is still a concern, can
someone provide updated information showing the issue?

** Changed in: ureadahead (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to ureadahead in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552165

Title:
  Boot speed increased from 30s to 50s when ureadahead enabled

Status in “ureadahead” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ureadahead

  Today I was investigating the sluggishness of my new Ubuntu Karmic
  install (on an EeePC 1005HAB), and happened on the idea that
  ureadahead might be slowing down my boot time. My boot time was over
  50 seconds to start with; once I disabled ureadahead (by commenting
  out the exec lines in the relevant files in /etc/init), boot time
  dropped to about 30 seconds, comparable to Windows XP, and
  applications launched perceptibly faster.

  It appears from further reading that, while these readahead mechanisms
  are useful on SSDs, they create enough overhead on normal hard disks
  to compromise performance noticably - even ureadahead, which is
  supposed to be friendlier to normal HDs. Since SSDs are still fairly
  rare, even in netbooks, I would therefore suggest that ureadahead be
  disabled by default to improve performance.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Mar 30 19:44:28 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: ureadahead 0.90.3-2
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
  SourcePackage: ureadahead
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:1643): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (gnome-settings-daemon:1643): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (nautilus:1680): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1704): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (firefox:1751): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ureadahead/+bug/552165/+subscriptions