I got spinning 5400 rpm 1Gb drive.
Booting takes 69 seconds (is it slow?) and /var/lib/ureadahead
contains empty directory debugfs
. That is why I wonder if ureadahead does its job.
/var
directory is on root partition
~ > df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 24G 15G 8,1G 65% /
udev 3,9G 4,0K 3,9G 1% /dev
/dev/sda9 705G 143G 562G 21% /data
/dev/sda8 29G 24G 4,2G 85% /home
configs seem to be default
~ > cat /etc/init/ureadahead.conf|grep -v '#'|grep -ve '^$'
description "Read required files in advance"
start on starting mountall
stop on stopped rc
expect fork
kill timeout 180
normal exit 0
exec /sbin/ureadahead --daemon
pre-stop exec sleep 45
~ > cat /etc/init/ureadahead-other.conf|grep -v '#'|grep -ve '^$'
description "Read required files in advance (for other mountpoints)"
start on mounted DEVICE=[/UL]* MOUNTPOINT=/?*
expect fork
normal exit 0 4
exec /sbin/ureadahead --daemon $MOUNTPOINT
Strangily /var/log/upstart/ureadahead.log.1.gz contains almost only "Ignored relative path" or "No such file or directory" tagged entries.
root:/var/log# zcat upstart/ureadahead.log.1.gz |grep -v "Ignored relative path"
Counted 4 CPUs
ureadahead:/data/swapfile: Error retrieving chunk extents: Operation not supported
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-eth0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-eth0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-eth0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-eth0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory
ureadahead:/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf: No such file or directory
Counted 4 CPUs
ureadahead:/data/swapfile: Error retrieving chunk extents: Operation not supported
On bootchart ureadahead appears on 16th second and lasts less than a second. Compare to https://superuser.com/questions/286571/ubuntu-slow-startup-time-modprobe where ureadahead starts immediately after plymouthd
UPDATE 1 Add blockdev report
# blockdev --report
RO RA SSZ BSZ StartSec Size Device
rw 256 512 4096 0 1000204886016 /dev/sda
rw 256 512 4096 2048 524288000 /dev/sda1
rw 256 512 4096 1026048 41943040 /dev/sda2
rw 256 512 4096 1107968 134217728 /dev/sda3
rw 256 512 4096 1370112 524288000 /dev/sda4
rw 256 512 4096 2394112 171795546112 /dev/sda5
rw 256 512 4096 1927233536 13460267008 /dev/sda6
rw 256 512 4096 337932288 26214400000 /dev/sda7
rw 256 512 4096 389132288 31457280000 /dev/sda8
rw 256 512 4096 450572288 756050558976 /dev/sda9
rw 256 512 512 0 1073741312 /dev/sr0
Partitions /dev/sda1 - /dev/sda/6 are windoze, ESP, DIAGS, WINRETOOLS, PBR Image
This version of ureadahead has been around since at least the start of 2015 and I doubt it was written with systemd in mind. I don't know what bumped the minor versions but last commits are from 2010. They probably included some of the merge requests since your version is reporting cpu count.
The dev is now working for Google.
Your best bet at this point would be to keep it disabled. If looking to shave off a couple seconds off boot, remove wpa_supplicant if not needed.