Comments on: Startup, part 1

By: vladimir

vladimir — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:02:25 +0000

Sweet! It turns out there is a sysinternals tool called CacheSet that seems to do exactly the same thing. My google skills failed; shaver found this the other day. However, I like yours better since it'll work on the command line. Thanks!

By: James Ross

James Ross — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:32:40 +0000

I took your implied challenge, and I made a 48KB no-dependency binary to empty Windows’ file cache. It uses a lovely undocumented API, so I blogged about it with binary and source links for posterity: http://twpol.dyndns.org/weblog/2009/07/29/01. :)

By: Tar

Tar — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:18:13 +0000

On Linux:
To free pagecache:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

To free dentries and inodes:
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

To free pagecache, dentries and inodes:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

By: skierpage

skierpage — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:31:41 +0000

There was talk of using UTF8 internally, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/Work_List mentions
‘”Strings” — sharing strings with JS or moving to STL, moving to UTF8, sanifying the existing string classes – bsmedberg ‘
and Mr. O’Callahan in http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2008/01/string_theory.html wrote
“I think it would be very interesting to try just having a single string type that was UTF-8 … [lots of details]”

It never became a bug, just an area for analysis.

As Gecko goes to smaller increments (1.9.1 -> 1.9.2), does Mozilla2 get further away ? :-)