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 IAA30523 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:37:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:51:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Emil Briggs Message-Id: <199906011251.IAA09750@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: Application load times Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: ak@muc.de, sct@redhat.com, weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk List-ID: > >2.2 made program loading already quite a bit faster by introducing readahead >for mmap. > Yes it sure does -- the original timings were with a 2.0.36 kernel. I upgraded that machine to a 2.2 kernel and did some timings (time to load netscape on a freshly booted machine). page-cluster time 1 10.62 2 8.38 3 7.07 4 6.4 5 5.53 6 5.05 7 4.78 I used a stopwatch so there is certainly some error in the timings. 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/