(In response to my own post, here) I tried out sReadahead this morning. That experience was very disappointing initial testing. I will describe the process here: Download the source, from moblin.org and compile it. Install readahead-list, created by our own Robbat2 Use the file lists from readahead-list and pass it to sreadahead’s generate_fileset command cd /etc ; generate_filelist /etc/readahead-list/runlevel-boot (I actually tried to concatenate both runlevel-boot and runlevel-default with no additional results.) Shove sreadahead in the readahead-list init scripts reboot End result: No improvement in boot time with either readahead-list or sReadahead.

Hmm, there is alot of buzz around the fastboot craze and now hitting the proverbial 5 second boot. This is turning out to be a fun thing to follow. Linus doesn’t like the fastboot [patches][4] but developers are adopting some of the patches that these guys have created (see lwn article, X devs offered to help, etc). Anyway, many kudos to Intel for supporting the open source community, Powertop, latencytop, X, kernel..cool.