running a couple google searches I can't find anything useful, I was wondering if anyone could explain what the advantage is to preloading libraries on a linux system.
my grandparents sent me their ThinkNIC, which I am doing some mods to, and was looking at the init scripts and saw this: # preload libraries /var/tmp/preload /lib/libm.so.6 echo -n "." /var/tmp/preload /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa /var/tmp/preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 echo -n "." and in the system-wide xinitrc: preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 preload /usr/X11R6/bin/progress preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 preload /lib/libdl.so.2 preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 preload /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 preload /usr/local/netscape/netscape preload /usr/X11R6/bin/blackbox I was shocked on how fast it booted up X, I guess its because its so stripped down(I upgraded it to 128MB from 64MB), but was wondering if the preloading of stuff had much to do with it, and why one would want to do it. thanks! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
