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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory consumption in KDE 2.0
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-05-03 12:00:09
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Martin Konold wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> > > SuSE starts netscape and you will unsterstand)
> >
> > Please clearify this? The kernel starts swapping to free up memory for
> > buffers?
> > How does SuSE starts netscape? I don't run SuSE.
> 
> # Start
> #
> dd if=$p of=/dev/null bs=8k conv=sync > /dev/null 2>&1
> preloader $p
> exec $p ${1+"$@"}

What does it do? Loading the binary-image of netscape in memory? 
What's the reason they do this? Faster start up times? Does the
image get swapped out when buffers are needed? 

Cheers,
Waldo

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