Prelink - Make KDE load 50% faster!

ggtesting · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 1

Hi, here's a tip to make loading programs up to 50% faster.

Read this howto and use prelink.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

Good luck!

liuspider · Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 237

I do not even want to bother with all these hassel to have a Prelinked system: I really do not care about the first startup slowness of my KDE, anyway, I always only have to wait once per day for my KDE loading. Even if I want to exit KDE and reenter, after the first time of KDE starting, the loading speed is the same as the prelinked one (I assum, or even faster, please correct me if I am wrong), for the KDE is cached in my RAM

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wokick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

How about other applications? Like firefox, openoffice, etc. Prelink makes them faster also.

liuspider · Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 237

Yes, faster, but only it counts the first time, after you have started it before, or have a running instance, you can not see any differences, can you?

I really do not mind the first time an app starting takes some time.

As far as I can tell, you have to re-prelink all your apps after you upgrade one of the core packages, such as gcc, gblic. That makes me resistent to prelink even more...
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wokick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 97

set up a cron job.
less than one minute to finish the prelink for my whole system.