Re: Ottawa - kernel hackers ...

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:04, Chipzz wrote:
> On 27 Jun 2003, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> > 	time find ~/.gconf -name '*.xml' -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
> > 
> > 	Which on my (warm) machine is ~8 seconds, to read 180kb of data, from
> > cold it's substantially worse. It seems to me that some holistic idea of
> > the scope of what the machine is being asked to do could be used at
> > login to very substantially improve login / app start time.
> > 
> > real    0m8.736s
> > user    0m0.209s
> > sys     0m0.406s

 
real    0m8.254s
user    0m0.170s
sys     0m0.340s
---- 
real    0m0.416s
user    0m0.110s
sys     0m0.290s
----
real    0m0.419s
user    0m0.120s
sys     0m0.300s

For me it's 8 seconds the first time, much less than that on subsequent
attempts. I am running GNOME here.

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Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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