Hi,
About one year back in a Mandrake mailing-list one of the developer pointed out that they could not keep programs in memory as windows does with IE, so apps take longer to startup on unices. I was willing to keep some of the apps in memory and let them occupy my memory in favour of faster startups of those apps. I have not idea how to do this. Any clues on how this can be accomplished? Presently I am using Mandrake 9.0 on AMD K6-2 500Mhz, 160MB RAM. I would like a generic solution that can be applied on any distribution or unix rather than a Mandrake specific solution.
Thanks in advance. Bye.
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:37:50 +0530 Amish Munshi wrote:
I was willing to keep some of the apps in memory and let them occupy my memory in favour of faster startups of those apps. I have not idea how to do this. Any clues on how this can be accomplished?
Do check your swap usage before trying this out since extra swapping could rob away the benefits of keeping programs in memory. You can have your most frequently used programs in the session startup list. Also, some programs like Mozilla and Galeon support running as "server" processes. You could run the "server" process at session startup and simply modify your launchers or shortcuts to connect as clients rather than spawning new processes.
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Amish Munshi -
Tahir Hashmi