On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Linus Walleij wrote:
* They use a LOT of preloading,
I have now looked a bit closer at this, and it is *indeed* looking like a
major user-perceiveable thing, they preload pretty much everything and
also add other hints to the kernel of what may be expected to be used
soonish during boot, early-{x|g|k}dm and so forth.
It is rather crude: the actual mechanisms used are:
preload, source can be found here:
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/src-oss/suse/src/preload-0.2-110.src.rpm
anyone knows wher SuSE keep their CVS/SVN/git of this?
Preload then uses readahead(2) or fadvice(2) to do the actual preloading.
Then preload is triggered from /etc/init.d scripts prepended with
ionice(1) like this:
/usr/bin/ionice -n2 /sbin/preload /etc/preload.d/gdm
Then as can be seen there are some app profiles in /etc/preload.d that
configure depending on used desktop what to preload, e.g. gdm/kdm,
Khelpcenter, OpenOffice, Firefox, Gimp (why?), etc.
All code and scripts are heavily SuSEified.
But has this really been under our radar for all this time? The entire
concept is like 2-3 years old, surely it must have been discussed before?
(Not that I heard it though...)
I don't have much time in my life but unless someone else starts looking
at this I will se if it can be Fedorified, target for F10 or so.
And thanks to Jakub for the hints given that allowed me to find this cool
thing...
Linus
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