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Re: Speed up the boot by loading the kernel disk cache



On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:50:12 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen
<pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>Today a new package to speed up the boot is available in unstable.
>The readahead binary package can speed up the boot quite significantly
>by optimizing how the hard drive is used.  It make sure the kernel
>disk cache is populated as the very first thing done at boot with the
>files used during boot.  To test it, install readahead, boot once with
>'profile' as a kernel option to tune it to your boot, and then boot
>normally.

Will this speed up waking up from hibernation as well?

Greetings
Marc, cursed with a notebook that doesn't cleanly wake up from
suspend-to-ram

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