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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
       Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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.

	Regards
		Oliver
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