ADAPTIVE MECHANISMS TO IMPROVE BOOT PERFORMANCE

A computing system includes a first memory that stores IO data, a second memory, and a boot manger. A pre-fetch manager pre-fetches IO data from the first memory to the second memory when the boot process is initiated. A detector component determines that an amount of the IO data pre-fetched by the pre-fetch manager has fallen behind a rate at which the pre-fetched IO data is executed by the computing system. An optimizer component causes the boot process to be paused to create a pause window and causes the pre-fetch manager to pre-fetch during the pause window a subset of the IO data. The subset has a magnitude that is determined to result in the amount of IO data pre-fetched by the pre-fetch manger substantially matching the rate at which the pre-fetched IO data is executed when the pause window is ended and the boot process is resumed.