Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 14:10:56 UTC 2007
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
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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