one could avoid the dynamic linking by prelinking the binary ... t
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:15 -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 96771783 http://tim.klingt.org Linux is like a wigwam: no windows, no gates, apache inside, stable.
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