Speeding up application lauch

elvinatom · 2010-04-10 00:41:26

I wonder if I can tune my box to have certain components loaded at boot time, so when I need them later they don't have to be read from my hdd anymore. For example, I head of a very small footprint linux distro that is supposed to run entirely in ram; or take Windows for example - after booting into Windows, when I hit Internet Explorer it takes a fraction of a second to start up (because all it's libraries are already in RAM). I want that too with my Arch install. Does anyone have any experience with that? Would I load that stuff as daemons? And what would I have to load for Firefox for example, that everything is running but the ui BEFORE hand? Any suggestions or "lessons" would be awesome.

BTW, I know that linux is disk caching by default, but the problem with that is that the cached data is not persistent + I need to open the app by hand (and then wait for it to start).

rttommy · 2010-04-10 05:00:43

I've searched for a long time before finally finding a great way to do just this. It's a script lying around un the gentoo forum, and I made an entry on AUR for it here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34207 . Install it, then just run as root in a terminal:
# gopreload-prepare programname
for each program you want to keep in ram. Then, add gopreload to your DAEMONS array in your rc.conf. Reboot, and voila.

elvinatom · 2010-04-10 20:36:40

That's really awesome, seems to be exactly what I'm looking for! I'll give that a try as soon as my laptop ts up and running again. I'm in the process of debuntifying everything. lol

Last edited by elvinatom (2010-04-10 20:37:20)

ch1pz · 2010-04-11 23:45:04

yey! thanks for your advice rttommy, my firefox's now start up faster!

Roline · 2010-04-12 00:11:57

Is there a way to unload a program?

rttommy · 2010-04-12 00:28:26

Delete the proper file list located in /usr/share/gopreload/enabled, or move it to /usr/share/gopreload/disabled.

Roline · 2010-04-12 01:10:13

thanks!

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#1 2010-04-10 00:41:26

Speeding up application lauch

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