Does arch seem faster after a recent update?

synthead · 2008-03-29 17:37:07

I don't know what the deal is, but my system seems 20% faster after the update I did yesterday. It boots way faster and runs better, even caches faster on the occasion I need to use cache (I do image editing on an older machine). Could it be that I'm a fanboy of Arch or have you noticed the same?

carlocci · 2008-03-29 18:59:14

It's quite funny you are so accurate giving a percentage, but so vague not stating what packages you actually upgraded

What did you upgrade?

synthead · 2008-03-29 19:07:01

I dunno, I just glance at it nowadays. I use XFCE w/ xorg and the open source ATI drivers. If I had to bet I would say something happened with those. I suppose I'm just real giddy cause I love using fast computers and the one I use at work (what I'm on now) isn't too quick.

miggols99 · 2008-03-29 21:20:24

Why don't you have a look at your /var/log/pacman.log and see which packages were upgraded?

windtalker · 2008-03-31 13:03:16

I use kdemod and an nvidia 7300 card.
I've only used Arch for a little over a week and just -Syu to update/upgrade.
I noticed a kernel upgrade for one as well as an nvidia driver update.
I won't say my machine is 20% faster, but it is faster for a fact on booting and responding.

Last edited by windtalker (2008-03-31 13:04:12)

neotuli · 2008-03-31 16:30:36

Although I'm quick to say "gee that sounds like placebo effect" supposedly gcc 4.3 will put ou tbinaries that are 10-20% faster than previous versions. Maybe that's what you're getting. *shrug*

B-Con · 2008-03-31 19:00:34

neotuli wrote:

Although I'm quick to say "gee that sounds like placebo effect" supposedly gcc 4.3 will put ou tbinaries that are 10-20% faster than previous versions. Maybe that's what you're getting. *shrug*

Where all packages recompiled that quickly with the new GCC version, though?

Speaking of which, what's the policy for building packages with new version of GCC? If a package releases a version, gets compiled and added to the binary repo's, then GCC updates, is the package recompiled with the new version of GCC or does recompilation only happen when the package itself is upgraded?

aRcHaTe · 2008-03-31 19:08:34

ive recompiled all my packages with my own flags and gcc4.3 its quite fast...before i recompiled ive at the time some packages took to load with "time" comand....not mutch but ive gain half of the ram it was consuming and 1 to 2 seconds to load the heaviest softs...

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Does arch seem faster after a recent update?

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