All,
Slight tangent to the current thread.
James Gray wrote:
Linux and most other "real" operating systems will take advantage of "unused" RAM and allocate it for disk buffers and disk cache. This is a good thing! The kernel will free up buffers and/or cache as it deems appropriate if an application needs the space. To the end user (or system admin) the whole process is completely transparent and very fast.
I've got a pretty old and still reasonable powerful 450Mhz PC with 196MB RAM. It runs all Ubuntu, FC3 and Win2K quite happily.
Firefox startup on Win2K is "noticeably quicker" than either of my Linux distros. Is there a way to improve this startup ?
Some years ago I vaguely recall an analysis done on application startup on linux and there were some bottlenecks identified. I wonder if any such improvements have surfaced in the kernels.
BTW: Thanks to whoever that posted the link from the archive. It was simple to understand and a pleasure to read !!
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