Application 'launch-cache'...

[David Ledger]

That's what the 'sticky' bit in the file mode used to do.  It made 
that executable stick in memory.  I think it is ignored in some more 
recent versions of Unix.  Don't know if it works under Darwin. 
Havn't checked.

David


>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:12:37 -0500
>Subject: Application 'launch-cache'...
>From: luke <etyrnal at ameritech.net>
>Message-Id: <A2162A36-A814-11D8-8114-000A95682B94 at ameritech.net>
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>is there such thing as a type of cache (within the os / system) memory=20=
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>that could be increased so that a large application that is continually=20=
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>being launched successively would load faster?
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>does the Finder cache some 'open' results in RAM??
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>i can not load the program from a RAM disk - i don't think...  too may=20=
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>other support files etc...
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>would there be some sort of cache associated with the BSD subsystem?
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>or would this be a Jaguar System type cache?
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>or maybe it just doesn't exist.
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>just curious for now.
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>i have xgrid set up to do distributed rendering on my Micro-Cluster=A9 =
>...
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>and the rendering software takes as long to launch as it does to=20
>actually do it's task...
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>so i figured if i could get the app to launch faster i could kill some=20=
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>overhead?
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>possible?
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>thanks.=

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David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK.
Chair of HPUX SysAdmin SIG of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk)
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