Re: prelinking

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:46:38 -0700, Bill Warner <wwarner42@cox.net> 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)
>
>
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> Bill Warner <wwarner42@cox.net>
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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.""






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