Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:48:17 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD working from RAM (MFSROOT) as a Workstation. Message-ID: <44y4qmdrni.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <4461dqf6ui.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> (Lowell Gilbert's message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:34:45 -0500") References: <1417734458.1772.1.camel@zoho.com> <447fy665uf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20141205131229.5ebd96d2@gumby.homeunix.com> <4461dqf6ui.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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Oops. Sent that last message before I meant to. One more comment. RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> writes: > An alternative might be to do a conventional boot and then kick-off a > background script that pre-caches as much of the SSD as will fit in the > remaining free memory. I'd try this first because it's a lot less > trouble and will give a reasonable indication of how much thing can be > speeded-up (at least until the cache is driven-out by something else). I used to do something like this back when disks were slower. I can't remember why I stopped. Rather than boot time, it started a few seconds after I started an X session. I recall I spent a little time tuning it to minimize CPU consumption, but nothing all that tricky. Maybe I'll dig it out of my backups and see if it's a noticeable help today.
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