Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:41 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > My point is basically to move away from "is rhgb a bottleneck", > > "would parallelization help?" speculation, and have a single graphical > > display that can immediately provide those answers. > > if you go parallal, you *have* to do the readahead-early thing, > otherwise you just seek your disk to death and end up being slower most > likely.... Bah. Just do the readahead on the first boot., and then reorient your disk blocks in the desktop background thereafter. :) Bill
