From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk (qmailr@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk [163.1.138.204]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA20975 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 15:34:00 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:33:54 +0100 (GMT) From: Matthew Kirkwood Subject: Re: Application load times In-Reply-To: <199905311911.PAA13206@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Emil Briggs Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- 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/