On Friday 02 September 2005 12:42, Andreas Girardet wrote:
> What I tried is many other combinations. Stefan Kulow (coolo) will be
> pleased to hear that he is right about prelinking after all and even I
> am convinced now (how could I ever have doubted the master)  that
> prelinking does not entail any significant improvement over an already
> well configured and preloaded KDE. It actually is all slightly slower.

Those benchmarks are very interesting.

Didn't Stefan Kulow himself wrote a paper with benchmarks about prelinking a 
few years ago (I remember there were improvements with prelinking)? I looks 
like newer linker and tool chains seem to have shinked the advantage over 
time to zero, although my own expieriences with prelinking never showed a big 
impact, at least not as big as preloading.

> The 1 CD install gave overall an expected boost when booting, since the
> install is considerably smaller and defragmenting has also some impact
> on boot time, but of course nothing on the already preloaded apps.

I would have thought that defragmentation after a fresh install would be very 
very small, i.e. nearly non-existing, am I wrong? Does a very mildly 
defragmentation on ext3 or reiserfs3 really have a noticeable impact on boot 
times at all?

Cheers,
Andreas

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