[Cialug] Boot speed

[Don Cady]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How much of a speedup to boot are you seeing?
>>
>
> This reminds me, there is some chatter going on at work about boosting
> boot speed from rotating disks. I'll just quote the message and let
> you know that people inside are reporting huge boot speed
> improvements. I haven't tested it yet. This is for Ubuntu 9.10 only.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:28 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
>>
>>> Great job Scott! What's coming for the encore? ;)
>>>
>> For karmic, we're still suffering from poor performance on rotational
>> hard drives.  If you have one, you can try:
>>
>>  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-boot/ppa
>>  sudo apt-get update
>>  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>
>> (that should install a new kernel package, and a new ureadahead package)
>>
>>
>> Usual two reboots to get the benefit; on the Mini 10v this reduces *HDD*
>> boot time to 30s - some are reporting >1 minute improvements on the
>> slowest laptops.
>>
>
>
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I'd seen that too. My question was: Is this something that'll make it
into mainline, or be abandoned?

Don