Re: Application load times

[Emil Briggs <briggs@bucky.physics.ncsu.edu>]

> 
>2.2 made program loading already quite a bit faster by introducing readahead
>for mmap.
>                     

Yes it sure does -- the original timings were with a 2.0.36 kernel. I 
upgraded that machine to a 2.2 kernel and did some timings (time
to load netscape on a freshly booted machine).

page-cluster   time
  1            10.62
  2             8.38
  3             7.07
  4             6.4
  5             5.53
  6             5.05
  7             4.78


I used a stopwatch so there is certainly some error in the timings.

Emil

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