April, 2007

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Vance Morrison's Weblog

The windows prefetcher

Posted over 5 years ago

by Vance Morrison
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In my last blog I talked about some of the conditions than need to hold for the cold startup formula ColdStartupTimeMSec = WarmStartupTimeMsec + 4 * NumberOfReads + 20 * NumberMBytes To be accurate. I mentioned that if you have overlap between the...
Vance Morrison's Weblog

Assumptions used in the cold startup formula (when is it accurate).

Posted over 5 years ago

by Vance Morrison
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After my last blog entry on cold startup a reader ( dimkaz ) worried that the formula would not be accurate in many cases. This topic is worth discussing in some detail because it pretty common to apply formulas outside the assumptions implicit in...
Vance Morrison's Weblog

A Model for cold startup time of an application on Windows.

Posted over 5 years ago

by Vance Morrison
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Well it is has been a while. I see now that it is been getting close to 1/2 a year since I last posted. Sigh. It is so easy for other things to get busy and not to blog. I have resolved to try to be a bit more methodical about and insure that I write...