On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:53:47AM -0800, Harald Sundt wrote: > In Unix/Linux is there a need for Optimization and which are the > best programs for this? > > I come from a traditional Mac Background. I run a Mac Household. > There optimizing really helped. The work I've done for clients (I am > a Home Health Aide), using Windoze has shown me that they can do > their optimizing without going to a Boot-Up Disk, unlike a Mac that > can't do optimizing of a drive you boot from. I VAGUELY recall a > Linux maven saying "Unix drive doesn't need optimizing they're swap > disks are so efficient."
Windows' "optimizing" involves defragmenting the drive. MacOS X optimizing is simply updating the prebinding so that programs load a bit faster. Prebinding is available for Linux and some flavors do it. Most didn't, although the advantages are big enough I'll expect that to change more and more over time. _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
