Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:13:25 +0200 From: Philip Lykke Carlsen <plcplc@gmail.com> To: cswinger@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preloading of shared libraries Message-ID: <200510241913.25396.plcplc@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <435BB8FC.8030601@mac.com> References: <200510231749.48212.plcplc@gmail.com> <435BB8FC.8030601@mac.com>
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Sunday 23 October 2005 18:23 skrev du: > Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: > > Hey.. I wondered if it was possible to load a selection of shared > > libraies into the cache at boot time.. I figure that it would speed up > > starting things.. like the KDE login manager for instance.. > > > > hm.. is this possible? .. and if so.. would it speed up the process of > > starting stuff at all?.. > > Sort of. At one point, you could set the sticky bit on files as a hint to > the pager to try and keep them in memory, which was intended for things > like /bin/sh, cron, login, and maybe libc. aah.. I always wondered what the sticky bit actually did.. > > Whether it would help in your particular case is harder to say, how much > RAM does your machine have, and what kind of CPU? Some people believe that > KDE requires excessive resources for what it does, consider fluxbox or > something more lightweight... No problem when when it comes to resources.. ( I have an ordinary x86 2,6 GHz Celeron CPU and 768 mb DDR RAM ) I tried fluxbox once.. didn't like it though.. but that's just a matter of taste.. just thought I'd try KDE as a change as I've previously only used wm's like EvilWM, LWM, TWM an Co.. .. so, there isn't a program that doesn't do anything but load a shared object into memory and then close? .. hm.. if all it takes is to call open() for a sticky-bit file to stay in memory, I'd gladly write that program myself :-)
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