Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1578 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Samstag, 12. November 2011, 20:05:44 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> On Saturday, November 12, 2011 04:54:34 PM Freigeist wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > does anybody know the reason why preload is not present in 12.1 and
> > factory anymore?
> >
> > Is it ever supposed to be back?
>
> Nope, it's obsolete with systemd,

I wouldn't say it's obsolete with systemd, but it doesn't work with systemd.

Obsolete has readahead support, but as many people reported on the systemd
mailing list, this only works for SSDs and preload is optimized for rotating 
disks (which should be the majority of users). But as it is, maintaining 
preload doesn't make sense unless better integration into systemd is done
and systemd developers have no interest and would rather see the kernel
improved to handle concurrent requests to rotating disks better.
While I agree with this, we wait for the kernel to improve for many, many 
years.

Greetings, Stephan

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