readahead slow down

[Caroline Ford]

2008/8/28 Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek at lichota.net>:
> 2008/8/28 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <ubuntu at bugabundo.net>:
>> Ubuntu (and also Fedora) are trying to make the boot of a system be the shortest possible, but on my system, readahead is adding up to 90 seconds to my boot time.
>> I've attached my lastest bootchart log and my dmesg to LP #262311.
>> On dmesg between line 505 and 506, it's visible the 90 sec pause.
>> [    8.869740] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[00e0180003a853e6]
>> [  104.088084] udevd version 124 started
>>
>> I wonder if it would there be any interest in collecting bootcharts and boot dmesg so common problems like this could be traced by a ubuntu-core-dev
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262311
>
> This bug is not accessible - permission denied. Is this some security issue?
> Can you sum up the results and post bootcharts somewhere else? I am
> interested in this issue.

I've unmarked it private - it only contained a dmesg file, not a core dump.

Caroline