Comment 11 for bug 569715

(In reply to comment #6)
> I actually seemed to stumble across some interesting interactions and behaviour
> in running a 'find / sudo' after enabling compcache after every bootup.
>
> Access times seem to be updated and the entire filesystem 'ledger' is stored in
> compressed ram. What I did notice is reduced ram requirements in clementine as
> versus Amarok and of course in the filewatch daemon.
>
> Probably this is similar in scope to prelinking on Gentoo as far as feel goes,
> snake-oil-like. It may expose some workarounds for kernel behaviour and / or in
> Nepomuk behavior.

Improvements are to be noticed in shared memory mostly. Amarok isn't privy to shared memory on file handles anyway and so it doesn't show much improvement there..not being inclined to patch or dig any deeper into what calls are at issue, I used Amarok as a hardline reference and played around with Nepomuk / Clementine for a bit to assess file-handle economics. I'm still surprised how well compcache functions as a 'phreak'-like application; I haven't felt like I was hacking as such since my Atari ST days.