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On 02/15/2011 01:45 AM, Dale wrote: |
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> I was curious. I have this new rig and was wondering if prelinking would |
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> help any. It's a 4 core AMD 3.2Ghz CPU with 4Gbs, soon to be 8Gbs, of |
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> ram and a SATA 3 hard drive. On a modern system, would prelink make |
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> anything that much faster? Is it worth installing in this system? |
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> Thoughts? Opinions? Personal experience? |
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It helps when loading the desktop for the first time. But the |
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improvement might only be one second or so total if your hard disk is |
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fast, so it's probably not worth it. I, however, find it extremely |
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useful on some older machines I run as servers (older P4 CPUs ranging |
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from 2 to 3GHz with 1GB RAM and old, slow IDE disks); they're running |
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Debian and I think Debian doesn't even build their packages with |
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--as-needed, so prelink seems to make quite a difference there. |
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