[ltp] slow kernel loading

[Sebastian Wegener]

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On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:32, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2004 04:19 pm, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> > Sebastian Wegener wrote:
> > > but when booting linux, the loading of the kernel image take quite a
> > > long time
> >
> > Are you using lilo? Putting a line saying 'compact' into lilo.conf
> > worked for me.
>
> Yes, this should be the solution.  Put it in the global options section at
> the beginning of the file.  Don't forget to run lilo as root after making
> the edit.
>
> In case you care why this works I'll offer the following.  LILO makes a
> read request for each sector that contains part of the kernel.  On some
> drives, this can be very slow, so compact causes the separate read requests
> to be combined into one when the sectors are adjacent to each other on the
> disk.
>
> For even more info, see man lilo.conf
> --
> /g

thanks...i tried using the compact option and it worked quite fine...
kernel image now loads > 1 sec. !!!!

thank you guys
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