Slow upstart boot in 9.10

[Steve Flynn]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> I think spending more than a few seconds on read-ahead is sign of a
> problem, and if you can't figure out how to resolve it, your boot will
> probably be faster by simply disabling it.

Indeed.  I note my pack file, contains some 3000 files, which seems like a lot.

>From a sudo readahead --dump | more the first few lines show...

45 inode groups, 3169 files, 7038 blocks (220300 kB)

I know this is an old machine, I've had it for years but even so I'm
astonished at the difference in time spent in this section of the boot
process compared with other boxes out there. I have a quad-core box
back home and a dual-core laptop... I'll have a look at their
bootcharts this weekend and do a little" compare and contrast"

<looks woefully at old box and wonder how he's going to justify yet
another machine to the wife>

> Here's my bootchart, a fast computer for certain, but nothing special
> about the hard drive.  It's actually booting off an older 320GB.

I'll remove ureadahead next week when I'm playing around. I note that
the transitional package "sreadahead" which has the text, "this can
safely be removed" in its description wants to take ubuntu-desktop
with it...

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

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