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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:04:38 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> I used it on a older and pretty slow rig once and it did help. I think |
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> it was 800Mhz with 512Mbs of ram. It also had some much slower IDE |
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> drives too. It wasn't a huge difference but you could tell the |
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> difference. |
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Some of the googling I did in the wake of the glibc-2.13 debacle |
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indicated that prelinking makes far less difference wih newer kernels |
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anyway. Even the old slow box wouldn't get much benefit from it. |
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I disabled it because of glibc and won't be re-enabling it, but I might |
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give it a try on this netbook to see if it makes a discernable difference |
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with a slow CPU and slow drive, or I'll buy it a SSD. |
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