From: Matthew Kirkwood <weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
To: Emil Briggs <briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Application load times
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:33:54 +0100 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990531203217.18436A-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199905311911.PAA13206@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu>
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Emil Briggs wrote:
> 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.
Drop something bigger into /proc/sys/vm/page-cluster on bootup.
I don't know how much bigger, but I suspect that 16 or 32 (4k pages)
should improve matters on a lightly loaded 64Mb machine.
Matthew.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-31 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-31 19:11 Emil Briggs
1999-05-31 19:33 ` Matthew Kirkwood [this message]
1999-06-01 0:19 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1999-05-31 19:54 ` Andi Kleen
1999-06-05 6:10 ` Vladimir Dergachev
1999-06-01 12:51 Emil Briggs
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