From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bucky.physics.ncsu.edu (bucky.physics.ncsu.edu [152.1.119.73]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA20378 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 14:57:06 -0400 Received: (from briggs@localhost) by bucky.physics.ncsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id PAA13206 for linux-mm@kvack.org; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:11:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:11:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Emil Briggs Message-Id: <199905311911.PAA13206@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu> Subject: Application load times Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Are there any vm tuning parameters that can improve initial application load times on a freshly booted system? I'm asking since I found the following load times with Netscape Communicator and StarOffice. Communicator takes 14 seconds to load on a freshly booted system On the other hand it takes 4 seconds to load using a program of this sort fd = open("/opt/netscape/netscape", O_RDONLY); read(fd, buffer, 13858288); execv("/opt/netscape/netscape", argv); With StarOffice the load time drops from 40 seconds to 15 seconds. The reason this came up is because I installed Linux on a friends computer who usually boots it a couple of times a day to check email, webbrowse or run StarOffice -- they immediately asked me why it was so slow. Since I know how they usually use their computer it was easy enough to remedy this with the little bit of code above. Anyway does anyone know if there a more general way of improving initial load times with some tuning parameters to the vm system? Emil -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/