Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:14:41 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dmesg verbosity [was Re: AGP bogosities]
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:21:22AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
 > 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?
 
It's memory that's otherwise unused. Once you start using the system
anything cached will get reclaimed as its needed.

		Dave

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