Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

[Les Mikesell]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> If you want a system that boots up fast, you have the option of
>> suspend to RAM or suspend to disk. There are advantages and
>> disadvantages to both, but if they work on your system, they can get
>> you to a working desktop in a short time.
>>
> 
> I'm not looking for fast boot times, rather for snappy system
> performance. Slax in RAM is _f_a_s_t_. I really could not believe how
> fast the system was. Give it a shot if you're not familiar with it.
> Open Office loads in about a second, slowed only by it's splash
> screen. Firefox comes up instantly.

That should happen the 2nd time you load something or even better as the 
2nd user executing the same program someone else is running on any 
machine that would have had enough memory for a ramdisk.   Anything 
loaded from disk to ram will normally stay there until the buffer space 
is needed for something else.  Maybe you just need to come up with a way 
to preload a few programs.

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   Les Mikesell
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