<div>I notice this not only on Pd but on most programs... gnome-terminal eventually starting taking so long to start up the first couple of times that I gave up and started with xterm, for example. Firefox takes a long time as well and I am using that every day...
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:ild0012@londonmet.ac.uk">ild0012@londonmet.ac.uk</a></b> <<a href="mailto:ild0012@londonmet.ac.uk">ild0012@londonmet.ac.uk</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:15:06AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:<br>> Hmm, now has anyone noticed that Pd (first time after booting) starts up
<br>> progressively more slowly over the months you own a linux machine? I'm<br>> suspicious that there's a correlation with how much software you have<br>> loaded on the machine. Maybe having lots of shared libraries and programs
<br>> to use them makes dynamic linking slower (see, e.g., 'man ldconfig').<br>><br>> That's nothing but a guess.<br>><br>> cheers<br>> Miller<br>><br>i think this is not what is happening really..
<br><br>i noticed a slowdown when i added a huge bunch of externals with<br>different paths to them.<br>so now i removed all and set the nessary once in one locations but with<br>subdirectories (by name, as appears in the cvs).
<br>this seems to be fine ..<br><br>i think that ldconfig caches frequently used stuff in /etc/ld.conf.cache<br>but still keeps only file descriptors in the memory ..<br><br>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Andy Farnell wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > Yes this is page/cache feature and seen with many apps. If you have<br>> > a very frequently used app that you want to load fast each time then<br>> > consider creating a RAM disk. Study Knoppix and Puredyne to see that
<br>> > in action. A start script to load Pd bins into RAM and then set the<br>> > path to them. Useful for performance situations maybe.<br>> ><br>> > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:10:27 +0200<br>> > Atte Andr? Jensen <
<a href="mailto:atte.jensen@gmail.com">atte.jensen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > Hi<br>> > ><br>> > > When I run pd the first time it takes a while to load, the second time<br>> > > it's much faster. I use a bash script to load my session (ardour, muse,
<br>> > > pd + more) so if pd isn't running before muse, muse can't connect it's<br>> > > midi outs to pd's midi in.<br>> > ><br>> > > I assume the load time is a matter of loading a binary, that's cached
<br>> > > the second time. If so, where's the big binary? I tried running "cat<br>> > > /usr/local/bin/pd > /dev/null" in the beginning of my bash script, but<br>> > > that didn't seem to work.
<br>> > ><br>> > > If the above is a blind alley, whe could be done to speed up pd loadtime<br>> > > the first time?<br>> > ><br>> > > NB: pd is version 0.40.3, and I'm running debian/linux...
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