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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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> Sounds like it isn't worth the trouble anymore. I think I'll leave it |
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> alone. The new ram may make some things faster tho. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I have just upgraded my laptop to 8GB (90$ ebay ddr3). |
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I now use tmpfs on /var/tmp and /tmp/ and run catalyst with all sorts of |
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experiments. |
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Take care I needed to provide more inodes to /var/tmp/ . with |
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nr_inodes=500K,size=80% |
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the default was 204K. |
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Regards, |
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Kfir |
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