-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2005-12-29 at 19:30 -0900, Greg Wallace wrote:
Right. Assuming it works like 'doze, the first load causes a memory to memory copy to create a cached version. This should happen very quickly. The majority of the time spent on the initial load is getting the binary(s) off of the disk, which would happen even if there were no caching done.
Correct; but not only binaries, but everything. By the way, I forgot to mention a thing that slows a bit disk access in Linux: the filesystem stores in disk the timestamp when any file is read, ie, a write operation for every an each read. The operation is cached, of course, but it does slow things. You can disable this with the option "noatime" in fstab. I have all my partitions that way for over a year or two and I haven't seen side effects yet. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDtdR4tTMYHG2NR9URApFOAJ9ICp3TzG1FxT1MFo3/HDTbQtivBgCbBaHp F1VIqd03M+0NSAjMZVs1bRA= =X+Ny -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----