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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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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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That's sort of what I was thinking. It may help on older machines with |
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slower hard drives but not much on newer rigs with fast hard drives. I |
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have a older rig that is a AMD 2500+, 2Gbs of ram and IDE drives. It |
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might help some on it but still may not be worth it. The drives on |
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there are pretty fast for its hardware. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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