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diff --git a/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/hubert/hubert-abstract.tex b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/hubert/hubert-abstract.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..696a80f --- /dev/null +++ b/2005/flow-accounting-ols2005/OLS2005/hubert/hubert-abstract.tex @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +% Registration On faster application startup times: Cache +% stuffing, seek profiling, adaptive preloading +% bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl) + +This paper presents data on current +application start-up pessimizations (on-demand +loading), relevant numbers on real-life +harddisk seek times in a running system +(measured from within the kernel), and shows +and demonstrates possible improvements, both +from userspace and in the kernel. On a side +note, changes to the GNU linker are discussed +which might help. Very preliminary experiments +have already shown a four-fold speedup in +starting FireFox from a cold cache. + + |