On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 02:37:24PM +0000, Ague Mill wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:28:36PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
> > Ague Mill wrote (01 Sep 2012 12:26:51 GMT) :
> > > Can someone else test the changes, now? :)
> >
> > :)
> >
> > I'm unlikely to do it any time soon on bare metal,
> > but it might help it that work was merged into experimental.
>
> Given it's a candidate for 0.13, I think it's not the best branch to
> test it, but I've done the merge nonetheless.
I still understand what could it make worse than the current situation,
but given that:
<anonym> I'd like to see that live in experimental for a while before
I trust it :)
<ague> Should I write another patch that remove the offending 'cat'
that is not running in the background?
<intrigeri> I think I would happily merge that one.
See attachment.
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Ague
From 1c0883518de62c30b1aee8e40e706b39013806ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tails developers <amnesia@???>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:44:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Stop readahead pretending that it can read file in the background
Files are not read in the background. This means we have a noticable pause
without any progress bar. This just slow the boot process, so let's stop
reading those extra files.
---
.../lib/live/config/0000-readahead | 6 ------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead b/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
index c29edbd..fdaecf9 100755
--- a/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
+++ b/config/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/0000-readahead
@@ -25,21 +25,15 @@ Readahead ()
Start_readahead ()
{
FG_FILES="$(sed -n "\:$BACKGROUND_AT:q;p" "$READAHEAD_LIST")"
- BG_FILES="$(sed -n "\:$BACKGROUND_AT:,\$p" "$READAHEAD_LIST")"
FG_SIZE=$(
cd /
echo "$FG_FILES" |
xargs du -c 2>/dev/null |
awk '$2 ~ /^total$/ { t = t + $1 } END { print t }')
(cd /
- echo "$BG_FILES" |
- xargs stat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || :)
- (cd /
echo "$FG_FILES" |
xargs cat 2>/dev/null |
pv -f -s ${FG_SIZE}k >/dev/null || :)
- (cd /
- echo "$BG_FILES" | xargs cat >/dev/null 2>&1 || :) &
# Creating state file
touch /var/lib/live/config/readahead
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1.7.2.5
