On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:22:27PM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > Ziga Mahkovec <ziga.mahkovec@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Without rhgb and readahead: > > http://www.klika.si/ziga/bootchart/bootchart-norhgbreadahead.png > > (boot time: 0:51 -- so these guys obviously don't play well together) > > This shows what I have "felt" while watching my machine crawl though the > boot process: as soon as the syslog daemon comes up, everything gets a > lot slower. Well, syslogd syncs on every message written, and the boot process spews a lot of information. The first thing I did when installing to my laptop was to disable the sync (slow harddisk). Perhaps the default could be changed to do syncs only a few minutes after starting up? Regards, Luciano Rocha
