On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:52 pm, Rajnish wrote: > All, > > Slight tangent to the current thread. > > James Gray wrote: > > Linux and most other "real" operating systems will take advantage of > > "unused" RAM and allocate it for disk buffers and disk cache. This is > > a good thing! The kernel will free up buffers and/or cache as it deems > > appropriate if an application needs the space. To the end user (or > > system admin) the whole process is completely transparent and very > > fast. > > I've got a pretty old and still reasonable powerful 450Mhz PC with > 196MB RAM. It runs all Ubuntu, FC3 and Win2K quite happily. > > Firefox startup on Win2K is "noticeably quicker" than either > of my Linux distros. Is there a way to improve this startup ?
Firefox/Mozilla startup on Linux/Unix/etc is a dog's breakfast to put it lightly. The "firefox" executeable is actually a big ugly shell script that does all sorts of jiggery-pokery to set everything just right so the browser is happy with the world once up and running. This (AFAIK) is due to the inherent inconsistencies between all the various *nix flavours Mozilla and Firefox run on. So rather than inventing a different set of options for every *nix, they've made this big ugly script that works everywhere, on all *nix'es. It sux, but it works. I guess if you can reverse-engineer the script, figure out what the hell it does then manually chant the final incantation in one command (eg, "<mozilla-bin> foo=oof bar=rab baz=zab etc=etc") you could probably by-pass the script altogether :) I believe it's been done, but never bothered - I've got an AMD64 system with 1GB of RAM and fast hard drives... speed isn't exactly a problem for me :P Cheers, James -- Over the years, I've developed my sense of deja vu so acutely that now I can remember things that *have* happened before ...
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