[ale] Fedora Core 5 memory management?

[J. D.]

[--snip--]

>I suppose
> >the perceived speediness could be related to changes in the virtual
> >memory manager, but
> >probably not caching per se. Anyway, until you use up all available RAM,
> >the effects of
> >VM caching strategies would be imperceptible in terms of interactive
> >performance. I'd rather
> >suspect that FC5 might be tuning various hardware parameters (eg
> >hdparm-type stuff)
> >better by default than earlier versions.
>


It is peculiar. Stuff that runs from the old WDC WD300BB ide hard drive
aren't so spectacular but once it is in ram it is unusually fast. It is hard
to describe. I guess I expected KDE to take up more ram than it does. It is
certainly so fast because I am not swapping to disk but was just wondering
if anyone else had run into it. And if it is some tuneable parameter I would
like to have it turned on in other distro's too. ;) What is prelinking?

Best regards,

J. D.
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