[Cialug] Boot speed

[Matthew Nuzum]

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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