Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:20 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:09 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
>>
>>> Looks pretty good. I have a dumb question though, for which I haven't
>>> found an answer - how can I enable/disable readahead? I haven't checked
>>> in Rawhide yet, but in F10 it is not among services.
>> It's explained in the test cases, I think? I'm pretty sure I remember
>> writing it there.
>>
>> You edit /etc/sysconfig/readahead , the first line is the key. The
>> advice to enable / disable it as a service, in the old version of the
>> test day page, was presumably outdated.
> don't forget to:
> # touch /.readahead_collect
>
> after you active readahead to trigger the data collection.
> Reboot for the data collector and reboot again after a full boot.
...well, that was completely obvious!
so my results which I did with two reboots but *not*
with /.readahead_collect would be invalid?
Well, yes, if you didn't reboot after installing readahead without turning it off.
I added the command to the wiki pages, yesterday.