[systemd-devel] Improve boot-time of systemd

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM, fykcee1 at gmail.com <fykcee1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We did a series boot-time tests of systemd, and found some interesting things:
> (Note the tests were performed on a laptop with a 4-core mips cpu, AMD
> RS780 chipset, 2GB Memory, rotate harddisk with ext4 filesystem,
> debian squeeze, Linux 2.6.36 with fanotify enabled, systemd-v20, only
> boot to console.)
>
> 1. What can readahead affect boot-time?
> Sadly observed negative affect -- boot-time increases at least 1s.