Two years ago, I did some experiments with eatmydata and the Debian installation system, observing how using -eatmydata +eatmydata could speed up the installation quite a bit. My testing measured speedup around 20-40 percent for Debian Edu, where we install around 1000 packages from within the installer. The eatmydata package @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ tested its impact.