The startup would be so problematic unless you plan to use it lazily as I was hoping to be able to. A solution for the startup delay would be solved by using a big magma server who is allways running and lots of clients use it. The problem with that is scale. I don't think one Magma server will scale as much as I need (mostly due to Squeak memory scaling). But I'm pretty confident N magma servers will do the job.
 

Sebastian Sastre

De: Rob Rothwell [mailto:r.j.rothwell@gmail.com]
Enviado el: Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2008 15:45
Para: Sebastian Sastre
Asunto: Re: Magma start

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Sebastian Sastre <ssastre@seaswork.com> wrote:
       I'm starting Magma in an image and see it has a delay of 15 seconds to
start in in a centrino 1.8GHz. Is that time normal?

I spent Friday night and Saturday afternoon trying to do bulk loads of large of large database queries into objects.  

It routinely took 20-25 seconds on a centino 1.8GHz in a compaq 6510b laptop to open a repository locally.

Then, it would take another 20 seconds or so to add a root object, which I did a lot while I was trying to figure out what I didn't understand!

So...no answers, but I can confirm your problem, I think!

Other than that, I haven't figured anything out yet...

Rob