Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: The reason to call it 3.0 is the desktop (was Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (NUMA)) | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:14:31 +0200 |
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On Sunday 06 October 2002 17:19, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > Then there's the issue of application startup. There's not enough > > read ahead. This is especially sad, as the order of page faults is > > at least partially predictable. > > Is the problem really, fundamentally a lack of readahead in the > kernel? Or is it that your application is huge bloated pig? > With admittedly no evidence whatsoever, I suspect the latter is > really the root cause of this type of problem.
Of course, but that's not an excuse for sucking more than necessary. Application startup is a problem.
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