Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-26 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bean, > > Thanks for the PNG fix! I tested it and it fixes the problem. 8-) > I am now using PNG files in my testing and they are working great. > > I'm also using my file I/O buffering patch and it helps performance

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-26 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:51:23 +0800 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:32 -0700 > > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Ok, after some more testing, I have found that if I cre

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-24 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:32 -0700 > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:36 +0800 >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:33:32 -0700 Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:36 +0800 > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:48:31 -0400 > > > Pavel Roskin <[

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-23 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:36 +0800 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:48:31 -0400 > > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 08:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: >

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:44:53 -0400 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:06 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > I agree that TGA is not, in general, a great choice for an image > > format (unless it is faster to load a large background image -- a > > 1024x768 RGB PNG

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Javier Martín
El mié, 23-07-2008 a las 10:05 +0800, Bean escribió: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:48:31 -0400 > > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I have not been able to load any > > PNG images that I have tried to use

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Bean
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:48:31 -0400 > Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 08:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: >> > This patch speeds up loading a TGA image on my test system from 29 >> > seco

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:06 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > I agree that TGA is not, in general, a great choice for an image format > (unless it is faster to load a large background image -- a 1024x768 RGB > PNG file may take more time to decompress than a TGA image would take > to load -- althoug

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:48:31 -0400 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 08:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > This patch speeds up loading a TGA image on my test system from 29 > > seconds to approximately 1 second. > > > > I noticed that on my 1 GHz test system runni

Re: [PATCH] File readahead buffering

2008-07-22 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 08:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > This patch speeds up loading a TGA image on my test system from 29 > seconds to approximately 1 second. > > I noticed that on my 1 GHz test system running from an IDE CompactFlash > drive, loading a certain TGA image in GRUB takes about 2