[gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Marco Calviani]

Hi lists,
   i've followed the gentoo prelink-howto
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) and everything went
well during setup. I've also set KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 in
/etc/env.d/99kde-env to inform KDE about the prelinking (and not
KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true"). This should (following the howto) disable
the kdeinit process, but unfortunately KDE still loads it.

Any experiences with this behaviour? Should i set other variables not
present in the howto?

Regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Richard Fish]

On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi lists,
>    i've followed the gentoo prelink-howto
> (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml) and everything went
> well during setup. I've also set KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 in
> /etc/env.d/99kde-env to inform KDE about the prelinking (and not
> KDE_IS_PRELINKED="true"). This should (following the howto) disable
> the kdeinit process, but unfortunately KDE still loads it.
>
> Any experiences with this behaviour? Should i set other variables not
> present in the howto?

Did you remember to run env-update?

Even with this, KDE still loads some things through kdeinit or
klauncher.  For those, try setting KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1.

http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/userguide/environment-variables.html

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Richard,

> Did you remember to run env-update?
>
> Even with this, KDE still loads some things through kdeinit or
> klauncher.  For those, try setting KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1.
>
> http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/userguide/environment-variables.html
>
> -Richard

yes, i run etc-update. I've also added that KDE_FORK_SLAVES option but
with no results.

Regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Richard Fish]

On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, i run etc-update. I've also added that KDE_FORK_SLAVES option but
> with no results.

No, not 'etc-update', 'env-update'.  That is the command that takes
all of the /etc/env.d/* settings and rolls them into /etc/profile.

When you run 'env', do you see the KDE_IS_PRELINKED and
KDE_FORK_SLAVES settings?

What does "ps auwx | grep kdeinit" report?

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Richard,

> No, not 'etc-update', 'env-update'.  That is the command that takes
> all of the /etc/env.d/* settings and rolls them into /etc/profile.

yeah, of course i mispelled in the mail..... i've actually made the
env-update......

> When you run 'env', do you see the KDE_IS_PRELINKED and
> KDE_FORK_SLAVES settings?

now i've realized that i need to perform a source /etc/profile before
these keys appears as environmental variables. However i've still
kdeinit processes.... (see later)

>
> What does "ps auwx | grep kdeinit" report?
>

13441  1.4  0.5  24348  7240 ?        Ss   22:41   0:00 kdeinit Running...
13446  0.2  0.5  24608  7636 ?        S    22:41   0:00 klauncher [kdeinit]
13524  1.5  0.9  32244 12336 ?        S    22:41   0:00 knotify [kdeinit]


Regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Richard Fish]

On 4/16/06, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@gmail.com> wrote:
> 13441  1.4  0.5  24348  7240 ?        Ss   22:41   0:00 kdeinit Running...
> 13446  0.2  0.5  24608  7636 ?        S    22:41   0:00 klauncher [kdeinit]
> 13524  1.5  0.9  32244 12336 ?        S    22:41   0:00 knotify [kdeinit]

AFAICT, this is the expected result.  Without KDE_IS_PRELINKED or
KDE_FORK_SLAVES you will see many more kdeinit processes.

The real question is "is it faster?"

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Marco Calviani]

> AFAICT, this is the expected result.  Without KDE_IS_PRELINKED or
> KDE_FORK_SLAVES you will see many more kdeinit processes.

yes of course, this is true.... a lot of more kdeinit processes.......

> The real question is "is it faster?"

well, this is a good question. Actually i'm not seeing any
"incredible" boost in performance, excluding a reduced need of RAM
memory.

Regards,
MC

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Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

[Marco Calviani]

> well, this is a good question. Actually i'm not seeing any
> "incredible" boost in performance, excluding a reduced need of RAM
> memory.
>

I would like to add that these "extra" RAM saving is really very
useful in increase the responsiveness of all the system and thus
apparent "extra" speed.....

Regards,
MC

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