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I handled this issue by precaching all my files (15MB),
from my readonly root filesystem.

find / -type f |
grep -v ^/boot | #kernel is > 1MB and never read so don't put in cache
while read file; do
     dd bs=32k if="$file" of=/dev/null 2>/dev/null
done

Pádraig.