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#1 2008-06-22 08:18:02

Llama
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Application start speedup

It's kinda embarrassing, but it's happened, anyway smile . There's a small something which is supposed to help applications start faster. I installed it some time ago, and it even seems to work - but I forgot its name. Nothing in the daemons list which would look suggestive sad . Will anybody please help?

Last edited by Llama (2008-06-22 08:18:43)

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#2 2008-06-22 09:51:04

Gullible Jones
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Re: Application start speedup

Prelink. You run it every time you update something, and it modifies the binaries (or rather, what binaries it can) to reduce load times.

I've tried it, can't say it speeds things up noticably. Plus it just seems a little bit... hackish to me.

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#3 2008-06-22 10:35:07

gnud
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Re: Application start speedup

It's not very hackish, if I understand it correctly.

Normally, every time you start an application, it is linked to shared libraries it uses, by translating function names into memory adresses. Width prelink, this is done beforehand. Hence the name. I don't use it, and I'm not sure if I think it should be used by regualr desktop users, but there is nothing wrong with the concept. Maybe the implementation is hackish tho, I don't know :-)

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#4 2008-06-22 11:56:23

Ink-Jet
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Re: Application start speedup

Preload is another tool, that loads libraries into memory while the hard-drive is idling, to speed up boot-time.

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#5 2008-06-22 14:16:16

Misfit138
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Re: Application start speedup

Tried preload a while back on my 1GHz Thinkpad T23. Didn't notice any improvement sad.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.

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#6 2008-06-22 19:42:00

Llama
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Re: Application start speedup

It's preload, all right smile . Big rigs like OpenOffice and Firefox certainly look smarter after the first start.

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#7 2008-06-22 20:01:28

Ink-Jet
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Re: Application start speedup

I defineatly noticed some improvement with Preload - you just have to use it for a while for it to learn your habits.

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