[systemd-devel] readahead-replay seems to not be doing anything.

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 11.02.13 12:34, Gary van der Merwe (garyvdm at gmail.com) wrote:
>> This is my first post to this list, so I just want to say I thank you
>> too all those
>> who wrote systemd.
>>
>> systemd-readahead-replay does not seem to be doing what it should.
>>
>> Bootchart with readahead-[replay|collect] enabled:
>>   http://www.garyvdm.co.za/bootchart-20130211-1328.svg
>
> You are aware that you need to boot at least twice after removing the
> readahead file before measuring anything like this?

looking at the graph, there are 2 systemd-reada[snip] processes
showing up, which are the replay and collector threads - so from a
first glance, the replay thread is running and spending quite some
time (10+ seconds) doing stuff

if he had no /.readahead file, it would exit immediately... so I think
there's an actual problem here.

> It might be nice of bootchart would draw the IO utilization per-process
> into the bar. That way we could directly see how much IO it actually
> generates...

it's been on my wish list for a while, but I've not had time to figure
out if we can get this cheaply... should make some time to dig into
that.

Auke