preload

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 02:12 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> > 
> >> Those people running preload can we get some benchmarks to see whether
> >> there is a benefit and if so how much of a benefit there is.
> > 
> > How? I only you know, just run it. I notice launch speedups for my 
> > commonly used apps, but I have no idea how to benchmark that in hard 
> > figures.
> > 
> > Linus
> 
> I would imagine just installing bootchart and getting the result with and 
> without preload for whatever typical services setup you use on that machine?

Bootchart doesn't work it actually slows down the boot up because it's
preloading stuff.  Loading stuff up using time doesn't work either.
That's why I'm asking as well.

The benefit of preload is actually in loading apps not in startup since
it is spending it's time loading things.

Cheers,

Marc