On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:06:07PM +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote: > http://www.klika.si/ziga/bootchart/bootchart-rhgbfix.png > (boot time: 0:46, yay) Looks to me like readahead_early and readahead are spending their time doing a whole lot of nothing (uninter. sleep, which I guess means "waiting for IO"). But if these two wait for IO, what process blocks it? Nothing else seems to be running at the same time, everyone waits.