On 2009-10-08 19:55 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Gábor Gombás]
>> I'm using Sid with daily updates, and ever since readahead gained
>> trigger support, it now re-generates the boot profiles every day.
>> So readahead no longer speeds up the boot process but rather slows
>> it down significantly.
>
> This sound like a bug. The trigger was intended to only trigger when
> a new package affecting the boot system is installed, and I guess you
> do not do that every day.
As Gábor already stated, this also happens during upgrades whenever a
package changes its init script, and that is something which happens a
lot in unstable.
>> Please add a configuration option to turn the trigger off or at
>> least limit its activation to say once per month.
>
> Adding some time limitation sound like a good idea, yeah. Looking at
> the age of the files in /etc/readahead/ and not trigger if the files
> are less then X days could do the trick.
Sounds like a good idea. The current situation where every other boot
is profiled is totally unacceptable for me.
Regards,
Sven
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