Hmm, now has anyone noticed that Pd (first time after booting) starts up progressively more slowly over the months you own a linux machine? I'm suspicious that there's a correlation with how much software you have loaded on the machine. Maybe having lots of shared libraries and programs to use them makes dynamic linking slower (see, e.g., 'man ldconfig').
That's nothing but a guess. cheers Miller On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Andy Farnell wrote: > > Yes this is page/cache feature and seen with many apps. If you have > a very frequently used app that you want to load fast each time then > consider creating a RAM disk. Study Knoppix and Puredyne to see that > in action. A start script to load Pd bins into RAM and then set the > path to them. Useful for performance situations maybe. > > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:10:27 +0200 > Atte Andr? Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > When I run pd the first time it takes a while to load, the second time > > it's much faster. I use a bash script to load my session (ardour, muse, > > pd + more) so if pd isn't running before muse, muse can't connect it's > > midi outs to pd's midi in. > > > > I assume the load time is a matter of loading a binary, that's cached > > the second time. If so, where's the big binary? I tried running "cat > > /usr/local/bin/pd > /dev/null" in the beginning of my bash script, but > > that didn't seem to work. > > > > If the above is a blind alley, whe could be done to speed up pd loadtime > > the first time? > > > > NB: pd is version 0.40.3, and I'm running debian/linux... > > > > -- > > peace, love & harmony > > Atte > > > > http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen > > http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > -- > Use the source > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
