On Mit, 2003-01-15 at 12:26, Chris Halls wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:17:50AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:10:09AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > >I prelinked the openoffice.org binaries with > > > > > >prelink --ld-library-path=/usr/lib/openoffice/program -m > > >/usr/lib/openoffice/ > > > > > >and it seems to start up significantly faster the first time. It would be > > >nice if this was done automatically in the background when (new) binaries > > >got installed, if the prelink package is installed. > > > > The prelinken was one thing, I wanted to look for to speed up > > OpenOffice.org. > > Its already on my todo list. > > Well, I tested the prelinking out and didn't see any significat speedup in > load time. And Michael Meeks said.. > 11:12 <@michael_> haggai: when I looked at this the pre-linking page said it > wasn't worth doing with a modern ld.so / gcc > 11:17 <@michael_> haggai: a KDE chap says - "The library loader that comes > with SuSE 8.0 has changes which effectively cause the same level of > improvement ..." > > Michel, can you provide some statistics to support your claim that it is > faster when prelinked?
I'll try to come up with that. > Remember that the first time OOo loads it will take significantly longer > whether it is prelinked or not, because the files are not cached in memory. I know, that's why I said 'the first time'. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
