Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-02 Thread Nick Stepa
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:30:47AM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 02/01/2010 05:41 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > >On 01/02/10 21:57, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > >>On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > >>>prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-02 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
> Well, I'm bumping this thread, but I have a doubt. When we run prelink, > prelinking is permanent or has to be done at every boot ? > prelink is not a daemon. prelink changes your file on disk permanently. So no need to run it at every boot. but as arch is a rolling release, you install new pac

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 02/01/2010 05:41 PM, Allan McRae wrote: On 01/02/10 21:57, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during the days of kde 3 I noticed a significant improvement in loading time of appli

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Nick Stepa
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:39:08AM +0100, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > hi. > preload and prelink are NOT the same thing. > ... > Thx for your explanation.

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Allan McRae
On 01/02/10 21:57, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during the days of kde 3 I noticed a significant improvement in loading time of applications. I have dropped its use (prelink ...

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 01 February 2010 16:09:08 solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > prelink modifies binary and library to ... prelink ;-) them. during the > days of kde 3 I noticed a significant improvement in loading time of > applications. I have dropped its use (prelink ... and kde3) because some > recent binutils(o

Re: [arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
hi. preload and prelink are NOT the same thing. preload is a daemon that scan what file you load into memory the most (in learning mode). and later (in operating mode), it prefetches them. I can't say if there is a difference as it's been a long time I use it. a slight improvement may be at the st

[arch-general] Prelink/Preload

2010-02-01 Thread Nick Stepa
Hello, list! Do this programs makes system faster? Maybe anyone use this program. II can`t find article in archlinux wiki about them, only in gentoo wiki(or handbook) - so i can`t find an answer to "is this good for Archlinux". PS Plz share /etc/prelink.conf