From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mxy84-0003Yf-N9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:18:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4250E0833; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74700E0833 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F140118401B for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 13055-10 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2E75A18400D for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AD57B47.3080402@xunil.at> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:18:31 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090929) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM References: <4AD3953C.5030706@xunil.at> <4AD4BFAF.1050800@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: 458051d0-15b7-47d6-9863-285599a2b1cb X-Archives-Hash: 42ff6cc8bda9c0d1cc66626422e8a9d4 Joshua Murphy schrieb: > Yep! sys-apps/preload goes a long way to automate what I did with > busybox's readahead tool, and I'm about 99% certain they both make the > same system call to do the work anyways... it's all a matter of how & > where they get their list of *what* to fetch... I, as I said, took the > brute force approach and made my list by hand. ;-) Ok, so it seems to me that I will just stay with sys-apps/preload and avoid my own "brute force approach" ;-) I don't have any particular issues, the box is rather fast and smooth so far ... and remember my non-ricer-approach ;-) As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some* people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs). Anyway. Stefan