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Andreas Girardet wrote:
In meantime I have found that Nordi's modifications slow the overall boottime down by 6 seconds and do not really provide much benefit with firefox .....
I think I might have an explanation for this: - Your preload will load English locale files while mine preloads German locale files (search for /usr/share/locale/). So my (German) preload files will not preload your (English) locale files. - Your preload is loading user-specific stuff! You ran the strace as user "root", so your preload also loads files from /root/.firefox. You have to exclude _all_ user-specific files from your preloading if you want to get real-world results. My parser removes any user-specific stuff from the list of preloaded files. The same is of course true for the locale. But when it comes to locale data the solution is easy: Preload English _and_ German files. On an English system there won't be any German locale files, so this will not slow you down measurably (and vice versa). Same thing for any other language! Please re-run the benchmark with those modifications and tell me if the difference is still that big. Cheers nordi