Re: Xlock on login

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Šegan)]

Hi Ryan,

Today at 2:51, Ryan McDougall wrote:

> I think the best place to put this pre-load optimization is the same
> place Windows XP, (I think MacOSX,) and FC4 put it: On boot they read
> into RAM a working set of files optimally arranged on disk (100MB should
> take a couple seconds), so that (hopefully) starting GNOME should rarely
> ever seek to disk.

This was discussed a couple of weeks or months back on this very same
list, I think.  Someone (Sean?) even did some benchmarks if I'm not
mistaken. 

Or, perhaps this was only about re-arranging files on disk for better
read throughoutput, I don't remember right now.

Cheers,
Danilo