Quoting Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com): > Does anyone know if there is a way to make a program start faster? I'm > constantly spawning off some processes, and they are taking about 150ms to > start. I need to get that down to about 50ms so the server can keep up. > > Would the pre-emptive kernel patches help here? Does linux support the stick-bit on binaries to keep it in memory no matter what? -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9