Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> There is a tool that records file reads. You configure it to run, then
> reboot, and login, maybe open some apps you usually use. Next time you
> reboot, another tool will read the recorded log and use the readahead
> syscall on them. The file list is even sorted by their physical location on
> the disk.

Yeah, XP has that built in, and Vista to an even greater extent. But they 
only work on (AFAIU) the demand-paged blocks, not entire files. Does the 
Linux tool read an entire file, or just the parts that were paged in at 
start-up? I suspect 5 seconds would be plenty to read all the login files if 
the heads didn't thrash like mad.

It just seems like it could be done better. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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