Hi, On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:26 +0000, jamie wrote: > wont you still suffer form disk access penalty still? > > reading 1000 files = 10 second delay (assuming 10ms access time on disk)
You suffer this penalty no matter what. Ideally you would spread it out over time (incrementally building it at package install time, for instance). > and mmap eats as much memory as loading them into RAM (as soon as you > scan enough pages which is more than likely since linux typically block > reads 255 pages at a time into its read-ahead buffer) Yeah, but this is largely an irrelevant implementation detail. Exactly how it's stored and read in will require some profiling; my point is that it's probably a simpler path than requiring a daemon and having a fallback. Joe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
