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It's kinda embarrassing, but it's happened, anyway . 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 . Will anybody please help?
Last edited by Llama (2008-06-22 08:18:43)
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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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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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Preload is another tool, that loads libraries into memory while the hard-drive is idling, to speed up boot-time.
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Tried preload a while back on my 1GHz Thinkpad T23. Didn't notice any improvement .
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
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It's preload, all right . Big rigs like OpenOffice and Firefox certainly look smarter after the first start.
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I defineatly noticed some improvement with Preload - you just have to use it for a while for it to learn your habits.
Last edited by Ink-Jet (2008-06-22 20:01:42)
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