Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:09:21 -0700 | From | Taras Glek <> | Subject | Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup |
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On 04/05/2010 04:52 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > Almost certainly teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, but are you aware > of the work Michael Meeks has done on improving openoffice.org startup time? > Yes. There were some stones left unturned in the cold startup area. Turns out that every single large application suffers from low io throughput likely due to lack of cooperation between the dynamic linker and the kernel. There is a glibc bug filed on that.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11431
Unfortunately, few userspace people seem to know exactly how madvise() hints behave, so I was hoping someone on LKML would clue me in.
Taras
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