From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:51:06 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release Message-Id: <1108497066.7826.33.camel@krustophenia.net> List-Id: References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050215004329.5b96b5a1.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050215004329.5b96b5a1.diegocg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Diego Calleja Cc: prakashp@arcor.de, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, pmcfarland@downeast.net, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 00:43 +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > There's stuff that it could be done in the kernel to help improving those numbers, > IMHO. > > xp logs all the io done the first two minutes after booting. The next time it boots > it tries to read all those files at once so the programs will find stuff in memory > instead of having to do lots of small seeks. Thanks for the detailed explanation. ISTR hearing that some of the distros are working on similar solutions. Now this would be a big win, as anyone who has seen how much faster XP boots than Win2K can tell you. And would certainly require kernel support. Of course resuming from suspend will always be faster than booting but for the forseeable future we will have to reboot from time to time. And XP's boot time currently is way, way better than ours. FWIW, OSX still takes forever to boot so we are not the only ones with this problem. I wonder if XP's solution is patented. Lee ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel