Prelink, anyone?

**utu** · 12-07-2011, 12:18 AM

PCLinuxOS linuxers are experimenting with prelink and some there,
using KDE for example, think it speeds things up.

Does anyone here have any experience or opinion on whether prelink
is, or would be, useful to Knoppix and LXDE?

Prelink looks to me to be installed by default in Knoppix 6.7.1, but
may be effectively incapacitated by its default in /etc/default/prelink.

For reference, see
http://linux.die.net/man/8/prelink

**utu** · 12-09-2011, 04:16 PM

ps

See pipelinig post addition.

**utu** · 12-09-2011, 04:56 PM

This is what I wanted to add about prelink:

Here's a sample from Mint on the use of prelink that
is pretty impressive. It mentions changing the time for
first load of LibreOffice of 25 seconds to less than 5.

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/473

**utu** · 12-09-2011, 06:49 PM

FWIW, Accelerated Knoppix uses prelink.

http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/index_en.html

**utu** · 12-09-2011, 06:59 PM

It was suggested that Knoppix 3.9 might be improved with pre-linking.

See, for example http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/index_en.html

**utu** · 12-10-2011, 11:31 PM

My experience with prelink for Knoppix 6.7.1 is that there is a useful improvement
in the first-time loading times for Synaptic and LibreOffice but not for IceWeasel.

/usr/bin/synaptic must of course be added to /etc/prelink.conf, and line 6 of
/etc/default/prelink must be changed from PRELINKING=unknown to PRELINKING=yes,
and prelinking established with the command as root: /usr/sbin/prelink -a.