Re: Caching of object/libraries/files

["Nick Savoiu" <savoiu at ics dot uci dot edu>]

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:46:47AM -0800, Nick Savoiu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a rather large project composed of a small driver executable and
> > quite a few .so libraries that it uses.
> >
> > When I invoke it with GDB, upon executing 'run' it takes quite a while
for
> > GDB to do it's thing (i.e. load symbols, whatever else it does)
particularly
> > since it does a lot of disk access.
> >
> > I was thinking that, if I start a GDB session on this project, run it
for a
> > while then quit and immediately restart a similar session, then most of
the
> > files would be cached. However, I see the same amount of disk access for
the
> > second session when 'run' is invoked as for the first.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is so? The GDB session itself uses about 340MB and I
have
> > 1GB RAM.
>
> This is something that I've been meaning to fix for a long, long time.
> We unload all shared objects when the program exits; what we ought to
> do is move them to a separate cache structure.

That would be an immense help. Staring idly at the screen was never my idea
of a good time :)

Any idea when this could get fixed?

Nick