On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:48:56AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > Not sure; the big boost really comes from reordering the files on the > filesystem - running readahead (which takes 11 seconds) only gives me a I'm looking into this. a mix of creating a new directory, copying the file there, then unlinking, linking and unlinking the new copies to the old name is more likely to help. The problem is that it's also bad for the current session where that change is done since you will end up with multiple in-memory copies of all system libraries... It is gonna be a bit tricky to set-up, either as a post-install step or very early on during boot. It's very easy to break too ... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/