Comment 13 for bug 338822

> If you're not going to compare the readahead package *as it is shipped
> with Ubuntu* against the sreadahead package *as it is shipped with
> Ubuntu*, you're not helping.

I'm sorry, but that's not what you've asked for in #8. :-)

Using the 'boot' and 'desktop' file shipped with readahead I indeed get equal times for readahead, sreadahead and sreadahead --no-fork (usable desktop after ~24s on the Core Duo system with a 7200rpm disk).

Please note that I didn't want to make sreadahead look bad, I just couldn't confirm your observation. Thanks for clearing things up!