Yes this is page/cache feature and seen with many apps. If you have a very frequently used app that you want to load fast each time then consider creating a RAM disk. Study Knoppix and Puredyne to see that in action. A start script to load Pd bins into RAM and then set the path to them. Useful for performance situations maybe.
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:10:27 +0200 Atte André Jensen atte.jensen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
When I run pd the first time it takes a while to load, the second time it's much faster. I use a bash script to load my session (ardour, muse, pd + more) so if pd isn't running before muse, muse can't connect it's midi outs to pd's midi in.
I assume the load time is a matter of loading a binary, that's cached the second time. If so, where's the big binary? I tried running "cat /usr/local/bin/pd > /dev/null" in the beginning of my bash script, but that didn't seem to work.
If the above is a blind alley, whe could be done to speed up pd loadtime the first time?
NB: pd is version 0.40.3, and I'm running debian/linux...
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