Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)"

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

I have the uxury of an old cyrix 233 system for testing.  Before
prelink, OO took 1 minutes 8 seconds to startup, and afterwards ~45
seconds.  Testing was done by doing a clean reboot to eliminate
cacheing, then start OO immediately after loging in.  repeat to confirm
it.  I then prelinked, rebooted and repeated.  Tested for a few weeks to
make sure no problems surfaced, then did two other systems.

I now have 3 systems prelinked (the cyrix, athlon t-bird1.4 with a flaky
abit MB, running at 1.2G, and a dell P4M laptop - all totally stable.  2
are heavily used (the athlon is my home
desktop/firewall/webserver/mail/dns/etc, and the laptop is my work
machine.

Unexpectedly (but I havent measured it), starting OO when a copy is
either running or recently closed, its very noticeably faster than the
same circumstances before prelink - almost stunningly in fact.

You can un-prelink a running system (or problem apps), but I havent
found that neccessary.

BillK

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 03:22, FRLinux wrote:

> Having read a couple of posts before yours, i'm quite scared to learn
> that prelink could lead to an unstable system. I've never emerged it on
> my gentoo and was considering doing so, anyone could enlighten me on the
> possible risks on this ? I am looking at more stability over speed
> improvements and have been very satisfied with my 1.4rc3 install so far.
> 
> 



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