Slow upstart boot in 9.10

[Steve Flynn]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:

> ~$ ls -l /var/lib/ureadahead/
> total 1636
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-11-10 01:33 debugfs
> -rw------- 1 root root 1664120 2010-02-11 06:22 pack
> $ sudo ureadahead --dump | head -2
> /var/lib/ureadahead/pack: created Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:08 +0000 for hdd
> 8:1
> 99 inode groups, 5300 files, 8689 blocks (184060 kB)


Bugger. That basically means that for some reason my old athlon spends
30 seconds hammering readahead when the rest of the known world does
it in a second or two.

Wonder why... drive seems quite happy, nothing in the error logs..
woeful fragmentation perhaps... feel like I'm typing like the
Salarian(?) scientist in Mass effect 2!


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Steve
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