Comment 9 for bug 492841

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Yes, for instance when resuming from hibernation it slurps in at ~40MB/s. I guess rearranging things on disk like MacOSX (and windows?) does is a bit too complicated.

Why is everything else blocked while ureadahead is reading? I would think some tasks can find their needed pieces in the cache meanwhile and could start doing something?