At 8:27 PM +0100 10/12/05, Ron Yorston wrote: >Chris Stark wrote: >>If the benefits and rationale for using prelink are documented anywhere, >>I sincerely would be interested in viewing this. Otherwise, the claim of >>it significantly speeding anything up is made moot by the fact that the >>system is virtually unusable when prelink is running. > >Jakub Jelinek has written as much as anyone could wish to know about >prelink. The PDF is available on an FC4 system as: > > /usr/share/doc/prelink-0.3.4/prelink.pdf > >One of the first things I do with a newly installed Red Hat system is >turn off prelink, and turn on updatedb. IMHO prelink is a hugely over- >engineered solution to a minor problem. Shaving 1.8s from the start up >time of OOo doesn't seem worth it. Especially when it's sucking all the >power out of my laptop battery and turning it into noise and hot air. It saves memory too, by reducing COW pages caused by relocations. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
