Rescued from the closed RFE 6176136, this might be worth investigating:

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>> The latest versions of linux have something /usr/sbin/readahead
>> <filename>, /etc/readahead_early.files, and sys_readahead(fd, foffset,
>> count). Of course that makes we wonder if we couldn't accelerate
>> coldstart by jamming a list of JVM files into the list in /etc. Adding
>> the right sys_readahead() calls to the JVM itself might work, too,
>> although I suspect that thread readahead operation might not be able to
>> get far enough in front of the JVM's execution to do much good.

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