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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.64-mm6
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 13 Mar 2003 14:36:14 +0100
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Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:


>   This means that large cache-cold executables start significantly faster.
>   Launching X11+KDE+mozilla goes from 23 seconds to 16.  Starting OpenOffice
>   seems to be 2x to 3x faster, and starting Konqueror maybe 3x faster too. 
>   Interesting.
> 
>   This might cause weird thing to happen, especially on small-memory machines.

That's great. It would be nice to have this as a sysctl or perhaps
some heuristic based on file size and available memory for 2.6.

-Andi

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