To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:21:22 +0100
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Dave Jones wrote:
> Some of the folks on our desktop team have been doing a bunch of experiments
> at getting boot times down, including laying out the blocks in a more
> optimal manner, allowing /sbin/readahead to slurp the data off the disk
> in one big chunk, and run almost entirely from cache.

What are the cons of using "all of" the RAM at boot time to 
cache the boot disk?

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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