On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:46:38 -0700, Bill Warner said: > http://vemod.net/debian/tricks > > I found this website about Debian and it mentioned prelinking. I first > heard about it from one of the new dists that claim super speed and one > of the optimizations was prelinking. > > Well I gave it a try and I have to say WOW, it has really helped a > lot. Does anyone know about prelinking and if there is a down side to > do it? Why isn't it done by default? > > If anyone wants to try it on their Debian system here is a 3 step > version: > > apt-get install prelink > vi /etc/default/prelink (change the PRELINKING= to yes) > execute /etc/cron.daily/prelink (to get first run) > > > -- > Bill Warner > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > For Gentoo users: $ emerge prelink I have prelink setup as a daily cron job. Here is snippet from the Gentoo Docs regarding prelink: ""If an application's dependent libraries change after you have prelinked it, you need to re-prelink the application, otherwise you loose the speed advantage. This is to say, everytime you update a package via portage that updates libraries, they need to be re-prelinked."" -- my$.02 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss