From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3176 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Aug 2003 23:01:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 559 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 23:01:35 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: frlinux@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev ML In-Reply-To: <1060888932.4387.17.camel@localhost> References: <1060781901.7508.17.camel@biproc> <1060783729.4133.42.camel@vertigo> <1060784410.7503.29.camel@biproc> <1060809305.3784.2.camel@localhost> <1060814942.27241.148.camel@rattus.Localdomain> <1060888932.4387.17.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060902075.28866.360.camel@rattus.Localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 15 Aug 2003 07:01:15 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "Distro Day (Measuring the benefits of the Gentoo approach)" X-Archives-Salt: 45e4f967-e41d-41d7-93a3-6ffd086bd5de X-Archives-Hash: c3f4bf51c94b18b5cd29a28941adbe79 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. > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list