Quoting Austad, Jay (austad at marketwatch.com):
> Does anyone know if there is a way to make a program start faster?  I'm
> constantly spawning off some processes, and they are taking about 150ms to
> start.  I need to get that down to about 50ms so the server can keep up. 
> 
> Would the pre-emptive kernel patches help here?

Does linux support the stick-bit on binaries to keep it in memory no matter
what? 
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