In case it may be useful,
in RedHat 9's gnome 2.2, with a currently loaded system (complex LaTeX
document, lot's of apps opened, etc...):
$ time find ~/.gconf -name '*.xml' -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
real 0m6.496s
user 0m0.100s
sys 0m0.400s
$ time find ~/.gconf -name '*.xml' -exec cat {} > /dev/null \;
real 0m0.572s
user 0m0.200s
sys 0m0.360s
Rui
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:39, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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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