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I have the uxury of an old cyrix 233 system for testing. Before |
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prelink, OO took 1 minutes 8 seconds to startup, and afterwards ~45 |
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seconds. Testing was done by doing a clean reboot to eliminate |
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cacheing, then start OO immediately after loging in. repeat to confirm |
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it. I then prelinked, rebooted and repeated. Tested for a few weeks to |
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make sure no problems surfaced, then did two other systems. |
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I now have 3 systems prelinked (the cyrix, athlon t-bird1.4 with a flaky |
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abit MB, running at 1.2G, and a dell P4M laptop - all totally stable. 2 |
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are heavily used (the athlon is my home |
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desktop/firewall/webserver/mail/dns/etc, and the laptop is my work |
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machine. |
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Unexpectedly (but I havent measured it), starting OO when a copy is |
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either running or recently closed, its very noticeably faster than the |
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same circumstances before prelink - almost stunningly in fact. |
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You can un-prelink a running system (or problem apps), but I havent |
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found that neccessary. |
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BillK |
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On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 03:22, FRLinux wrote: |
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> Having read a couple of posts before yours, i'm quite scared to learn |
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> that prelink could lead to an unstable system. I've never emerged it on |
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> my gentoo and was considering doing so, anyone could enlighten me on the |
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> possible risks on this ? I am looking at more stability over speed |
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> improvements and have been very satisfied with my 1.4rc3 install so far. |
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