Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.3) Installed from: Compiled From Sources 2nd KDE startup (after X restart or logout) is much, much faster, because KDE libs/files are already in the filesystem cache. Is it possible to "preload" frequently used files before login ?
that idea suffers from a fundamental problem ... if 20 session types are defined, should all of them be prefetched then? :} the prefetching itself is technically doable; every session type that wants it would have to provide a script for this task.
I believe this issue will be solved with 2.6 kernels: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-optimize&m=104756256414428&w=2
Subject: Re: KDE "preload" in kdm On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:33:34AM -0000, Luboš Lu
i decided not to handle this in kdm. here are a few links to threads relating this issue: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-optimize&m=107875178924596&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-optimize&m=107943686019056&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-optimize&m=107954681501259&w=2
ok, this is now half-implemented. for the time the greeter is up, a program configurable with the Preloader option is run. it doesn't know anything about the user to log in or the selected session, so it is purely speculative. actually writing a kde preloader is on lubos' todo list.