From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262058AbVGVH5I (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:57:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262062AbVGVH5I (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:57:08 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.197]:10014 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262058AbVGVH5H convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:57:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m40p2GdpPd1ZlxFOgyLl6cNAxjv2g/DYiRb3jdeiuMZYOjcPV4Ofboc+SzRjjn6Qy82R9bmMMQdb6EIdXrj4gz7IV0MVmS+7J1iooenzLoa3uJ2kDUrQesU/0NISoDwMhRBo+iDec2BOKQbMkCpNdF/fabU3iV6/p9ONPSUWM8k= Message-ID: <7f800d9f0507220016d8c26e6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:16:38 -0700 From: Andre Eisenbach Reply-To: Andre Eisenbach To: bert hubert , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fastboot, diskstat In-Reply-To: <20050722034135.GA21201@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050722034135.GA21201@outpost.ds9a.nl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2005/7/21, bert hubert : > I'm currently at OLS and presented http://ds9a.nl/diskstat yesterday, which > also references your ancient 'fboot' program. Bert, ever so slightly off topic, but you mentioned parallelized startup in your slides... So checkout initng for your tests. It's a highly parallelized init system which seriously speeds up boot. It also keeps the disks much busier during boot and might help your testing. Initng: http://initng.thinktux.net Cheers, Andre