You mean that wikientry?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed-up_Firefox_using_tmpfs
I did this to test how well tmpfs works for me:
mv .mozilla /dev/shm/moz
ln -s /dev/shm/moz .mozilla
There was some difference, but not too much as expected.
From what I understand this is to keep the
preload works for what it is made.
It is not made to speed up firefox startup time.
Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other
things might explain your slow startup time of firefox.
One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
(doing it the
solsTiCe d'Hiver solstice.dhi...@gmail.com:
One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
(doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been
discussed somewhere I think.
How else ?
You mean that wikientry?
On 05/06/2010 01:51 PM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
preload works for what it is made.
It is not made to speed up firefox startup time.
Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other
things might explain your slow startup time of firefox.
One of the ways to speed up firefox is
On 05/06/2010 01:58 PM, Johannes Held wrote:
solsTiCe d'Hiversolstice.dhi...@gmail.com:
One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
(doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been
discussed somewhere I think.
How else ?
You mean that wikientry?
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote:
On 05/06/2010 01:58 PM, Johannes Held wrote:
solsTiCe d'Hiversolstice.dhi...@gmail.com:
One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
(doing it the right way, else you loose your data).
On Tuesday May 4 2010 18:23:20 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
hat's the fix then ?
I guess he meant preloading doesn't really make much of a difference...
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On 05/05/2010 07:11 PM, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
On Tuesday May 4 2010 18:23:20 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
hat's the fix then ?
I guess he meant preloading doesn't really make much of a difference...
No I meant that there is not significant speed gain with preload in my
case. Is anybody
Preload never worked for me, may be the performance improvment was too
low for me to notice. You can also try readahead-list but I am skeptical
about that too.
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:53:20PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On 05/04/2010 08:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 05/05/10 00:07,
* Raghavendra D Prabhu raghu.prabh...@gmail.com [05.05.2010 22:09]:
Preload never worked for me, may be the performance improvment was too
low for me to notice. You can also try readahead-list but I am skeptical
about that too.
Afaik preload is supposed to preload frequently used applications,
Hi,
I'm running preload since about two months, but I haven't seen any
improvement in program startup times especially firefox, which I launch
and close every now and then.
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On 05/05/10 00:07, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Hi,
I'm running preload since about two months, but I haven't seen any
improvement in program startup times especially firefox, which I launch
and close every now and then.
I think you have experimentally found the answer to your own question...
On 05/04/2010 08:16 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 05/05/10 00:07, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Hi,
I'm running preload since about two months, but I haven't seen any
improvement in program startup times especially firefox, which I launch
and close every now and then.
I think you have
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