readahead not reading ahead?

jdong dlist at ubuntuforums.org
Wed Sep 14 16:59:38 CDT 2005


Matt Zimmerman Wrote: 
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:55:24PM -0400, jdong wrote:

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> > Setting up readahead (0.20050328.0142-0ubuntu1) ...

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> > Readahead doesn't contain /etc/readahead/readahead. Also,

> > readahead-list is just selecting readahead, which contains the

> > description for readahead-list.

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> Looks like the readahead->readahead-list transition has some problems;

> Tollef will investigate it.

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Alright, thanks, Matt.. Probably you have your readahead because your
Ubuntu install is much older than mine (Colony 4 fresh install).
Believe it or not, I think I'm feeling the negative speed impact
without readahead on my 1.5GB RAM system.


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jdong



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